Or: Lazy I/O without Shooting Yourself in the Foot 2021-07-24 One of my favorite founding principlesThe cynics among us might refer to it as a myth rather than a principle, given that Unix is no stranger to massive, kitchen-sink programs. Indeed, I’m writing this post in such a program. of Unix is the universality of streams of bytes. Unix shells give us a monadic pipeline operator |, that, given some computation a | b, executes a so that its output forms the input to b.
