std.string and std.algorithm: what to do?

[Simen Kjaeraas]

Georg Wrede wrote:

> Just an example: MS-DOS had pipes already when regular PCs didn't have  
> hard disks. One could watch grand demos in trade shows, where the guy  
> piped stuff to sort, to find (their sorry version of grep), to more, and  
> to custom made filters.
>
> What nobody told the user (until he had already bought a PC with MSDOS,  
> and he had tried to actually use the feature, unsuccessfully, and then  
> called the $10-a-minute hotline), is that the pipes were implemented so  
> that the first program writes the entire output into a temporary file on  
> the floppy, and once it has finished running, the next program then  
> opens the file as input.
>
> Now, with the 0.00036 GB floppies of the day, it's not hard to see why  
> nobody ever got any real pipe work done.

I guess it was just a pipe dream, then. :p

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  Simen