RE: [Xpipe-developers] XPipes, Web-Services and long running pipes vs once-off pipes.

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> Sean McGrath
> 
> XPipes that write XPipes opens up some interesting
> possibilities. XPipes could theoretically be self-modifying 
> which in production pipelines could be the basis for pipes 
> that "learn" based on previous experience.

To do that you'll want to be able to propagate signals in the opposite
direction to the data flow; processes can't learn or adjust much without
feedback from the environment. A practical benefit in doing this is
reducing management costs; you can defer policy decisions to the runtime
instead of stating policy in a link/compile cycle (this is much the same
idea as deferring optimizations to an optimizing compiler). 

To have an XPipe write an XPipe, you'll want an XComponent that is a
XPipe interpreter. In manufacturing terms that would be akin to a
production line built to build production lines instead of machines.
Very powerful.

Bill