The Universe of Discourse : Note on point-free programming styleThu, 03 Jan 2008 Note on point-free programming style This old comp.lang.functional article by Albert Y. C. Lai, makes the point that Unix shell pipeline programming is done in an essentially "point-free" style, using the shell example: grep '^X-Spam-Level' | sort | uniq | wc -l and the analogous Haskell code: length . nub . sort . filter (isPrefixOf "X-Spam-Level") Neither one explicitly mentions
Dataflow in programming languages (with some Factor bias)
