Thank you for the follow-up and the links! I wonder if your suggestion would hold if it were put to the test and one were to implement a big and complex softwar

Thank you for the follow-up and the links! I wonder if your suggestion would hold if it were put to the test and one were to implement a big and complex software strictly with the independent processes+pipes model. I could well see that you would wind up in some other sort of hell, because the problem of understanding lies not in the way it's implemented but in the complexity of the tasks involved. >Sorry this got a little long, I could ramble about the downsides of programming in these times for hours. Haha, programmer talk is the best!