> (In particular it almost definitely won’t use on-disk storage when needed or support parallelism...) The parallelism possibilities of shell pipelines was alw

> (In particular it almost definitely won’t use on-disk storage when needed or support parallelism...) The parallelism possibilities of shell pipelines was always obvious to me. But I hadn't appreciated explicitly the trivial disk storage ability - that is important too. Nowadays, the other way may be important too - that you can create an in-memory filesystem and run scripts that work off files way faster. Another tool I feel we don't use enough, is 'make'.