> For example, allowing passing around dicts/maps/json (and possibly other data structures) would already be a massive improvement. It is allowed, you can pass

> For example, allowing passing around dicts/maps/json (and possibly other data structures) would already be a massive improvement. It is allowed, you can pass around data in whatever encoding you desire. Not many do though because text is so useful for humans. > You know what might be even better — passing around objects you could interact with by passing messages (gasp! cue, Alan Kay) That's a daemon/service and basic unix utils make it easy to create, a shell script reading from a FIFO file fits this definition of object, the message passing is writing to the file and the object is passed around with the filename. Unix is basically a fulfillment of Alan Kay's idea of OO.