Re: [stack] Abstracting away the complexity is the goal.

> To index individual articles in blogs, we use two basic types
> of technology: an article feed, and a backlink registry.Article
> feeds use RSS and Atom XML formats (about equally commonly,
> many sites provide both), and they're used to let you know when
> the blog you're watching has a new article (or comment) posted
> to it. Backlink registries use TrackBack or Google Backlink,
> and they let you know when someone other than the author of
> a post has written a blogpost that links to the post.

That seems complex - what I want to avoid.
Am I wrong that the 'thread' of [typically 80] comments is agregated,
and you can't fetch single comments ?
I've got a utility which does:
  goog <URL> <3 words in contents> <file to save Results>
which I shoot off in the background while I'm d/l-ing other stuff.

But I don't want to get married to google. IMO they are becoming the most
powerfull organisation in the world - worrysome.

>  Why is your pseudocode so wrong? That's horrific.

Yes switching syntax between: lisp, piped-data-flow, algol
is problematic.
I've been reading the MIT on-line scheme-based tutorials and am astounded at
the clarity of presentation. These old timers even 'touch on' human cognitive
considerations, which as I've been selling is the most important.
...
>  Yeah, Factor has all that.

"All that" is what I'm worried about. For me 'less is more'.
I don't want to open another can of worms.
And I've been good at avoiding fads.
It's just that this 'cascading-transformed-data' method is cost effective.
So since scheme can do anything/everything; if it could be achieved by a
piped-data-flow notation that would be great.