One shouldn't discount the free concurrency offered by the unix pipelining paradigm. There are several data-mining usecases where you'd wind up writing much mor

One shouldn't discount the free concurrency offered by the unix pipelining paradigm. There are several data-mining usecases where you'd wind up writing much more performant scripts exchanging I/O between processes, with less brainpower than it takes to write a bunch of for-loops in python.