Object Pipelines
Beside byte stream-based pipelines, there are also object pipelines. In an object pipeline, the processes output objects instead of texts; therefore removing the string parsing tasks that are common in UNIX shell scripts. Windows PowerShell uses this scheme and transfers .NET objects. Channels, found in the Limbo programming language, and the IPython ipipe extension are other examples of this metaphor.
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