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Development of pipe-calculus started with the idea that syntax should be a first class element of programming languages as well as formation rules are integral part of logical systems. A language like that is able to interpret complex input without using a parser library. Pipe-calculus is a minimal language with this capability. | Development of pipe-calculus started with the idea that syntax should be a first class element of programming languages as well as formation rules are integral part of logical systems. A language like that is able to interpret complex input without using a parser library. Pipe-calculus is a minimal language with this capability. | ||
On the practical side pipe-calculus is inspired by shell programming | On the practical side pipe-calculus is inspired by shell programming with text streams and stream processing tools. Indeed the idea of the ''pipe'' combinator comes from shell scripting. | ||
=== An example === | === An example === | ||