Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

On 3/11/2025 5:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:46:24 -0700, Stephen Fuld wrote:
 

No software guy talks about "pipeline semantics" :-)

 Remember what pipes are in Unix, and how they can be used to construct
command pipelines.

Putting the destination on the right is also fairly common in general in Unix style command notation:
   dosomething args infile outfile
   prog1 infile | prog2 > outfile
...