Semantic pipes

By osfameron from Italia.pm,London.pm,NorthWestEngland.pm,Edinburgh.pm
Date: Saturday, 5 December 2009 12:20
Duration: 20 minutes
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Tags: moose pipes powershell unix yaml

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Talk: http://www.slideshare.net/osfameron/semantic-pipes-london-perl-workshop-2009

Unix has always had a philosophy of composable tools, where one tool outputs to the next in a pipeline.

But the technique of piping a *textual* stream of data, and having to extract data out of it is looking a bit long in the tooth. Microsoft (not historically an innovator in its shell environment :-) has stolen a march with its Powershell.

Can we do better in Perl? With composable streams of objects? Written in a modern OO framework (Moose)?

You bet we can!

(see http://github.com/osfameron/pipe for code -- work in progress)