Not a terribly good one, mind you, and I can provide references who will attest to that fact.

But at the height of my skill set I routinely authored programs in C, C++, Perl, and SQL. I also did a great deal of database administration using MySQL, MS-SQL, and Oracle (although the Oracle stuff was just for kicks and giggles…I never used it in a production environment).

I’ve lately tried my hand at Objecive-C and Cocoa (through the Mac development environment), and have been looking at Python.

But a while back I discovered Pipes. (This is related to Unix pipes, but it’s as far advanced from Unix pipe programming as Windows XP is from Dos.)

I remembered reading a paper about 18 months ago about the concept of pipes, and how there were some neat ideas about how to bring them into the 21st century, and introduce a new way of computer programming.

Then I found out about Yahoo doing a test environment with pipes. And I started playing with it over this past weekend.

And had a lot of fun.

Clicky here.

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