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utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue:

by ky3 12y ago

utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/ http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg... The Unix "Software Tools" philosophy -- small kits composable into something big -- is deeply shared by functional programming. I don't think one begot the other. It was just obviously the natural thing to do during that era.

vram22 12y ago
>You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue: Yes, that was a good article. The comments on the post were interesting too. Saw it a while ago, and for fun, wrote two quick solutions for the problem, in Python and shell: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-and-solutions.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-... A reader, Veky, wrote an interesting comment on my post too.