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tambourine_man on May 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix command line conventions over time

Very interesting. We’d love to read more on other media pipelining and alternatives to the shell.

bfrankline on May 7, 2022 | [–]

It was very primitive. It was essentially a mechanism for composing operations on vectors. I don’t know for certain but I would guess that it was inspired by IBM and their work on APL.

harry8 on May 7, 2022 | [–]

Yeah. I wonder if it looks anything like gstreamer...

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