Re: [Haskell-beginners] Passing data between programs.

Come to think of it, Joel Bartlett at DECWRL had a system called ezd that looked a lot like this, except he did it the other way around: his server (written in Scheme) provided high-level (for the time) graphics primitives whose interface was a pair of pipes. I played with it some back in the day, and I recall it as pretty spiffy (especially using Bartlett's Scheme compiler for the front end).

And the internet hasn't forgotten it! I found a copy of his WRL Tech Report on it: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-91-6.html

Thanks for the link Mike - I get a feeling that my attempt at https://github.com/ckkashyap/Chitra is similar in spirit :) I'll be getting back to it soon.