[posterboy]

> That is not even close.

Stream processing should be equally mighty as list processing. What about system level access?

Edit:

> both CLI window and other GUI elements as programmable

Sure, X sucks, but it supports that. X might be infamously complicated, but there's a security hole, either way.

[pjmlp]

Text stream processing is not as powerful as data structures and functional programming composition.

How do you in X protocol select an object that represents a table in a word document and add an extra column with the standard deviation of the other rows?

Just a possible example of the type of composition that was possible.

[posterboy]

nowadays, theres possibly a related System-D feature ;)