Re: Chained-functional notation examples?
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- Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 02:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Am Dienstag, 6. Mai 2014 08:26:46 UTC+2 schrieb Unknown: > I came to 'Mathematica' via Xahlee's criticism of the ad-hoc nature of > > unix-piping [functional notation]. He claims [& I believe him] that Mathematica has a better, more consistent notation. But the facility of PRE, IN & POST-fix alternatives, seems bad. You want ONE way of acieving the goal. More rules just increases mental load. > > > > A major benefit of functional [unix-piping] programming style, is that you > > don't need to remember the-full-journey: you just need to remember the previous stage's output. Nor do you need to remember several names: the previous output is just "it". A superficial read through a recent article[s] here, about <collecting data from several servers, and agregating it, and sending the result to a master> seemed very interesting, and matches my ideas of using functional programming. But I can't afford to invest in ANOTHER notation/syntax, without good prospect of productivety increase. > > > > Just as a test, how would Mathematica handle the following [or part of] > > little task: > > > > search all files in Dir=tree D | > > which are less than N days-old | > > and which contain string S1 | > > and which contain string S2 . > > > > Actually, this seems not a good example, since it's biased towards the *nix > > file system's format/syntax. > > > > Try: > > Search in table of ListOfOpenFiles for lineS with path-P [field] | > > which have same tty-field as line with path-P2 & program-M [field] > > > > This sounds like a data-base problem? > > > > Or is there a nice list of 'such' Mathematica examples? > > > > Thanks, > > > > == John Grant. Well, I think that postfixing by use of the Mathematica Postfix operator "//" accompanied by use of Mathematica pure Function "&" with access to the last result = by using Mathematica Slot "#" (argument to the pure Function) mimics *nix piping best: the following gets all files of "c:/temp" in all sub dirs older than 200 days containing at least one of the strings "str1", "str2" : "c:/temp" // FileNames["*", #, Infinity]& // Select[#, DateDifference[FileDate[#], DateList[]] > 200 &]& // Select[#, StringMatchQ[#, "*str1*"] || StringMatchQ[#, "*str2*"]&] & Regards Robert