> Interesting, I'll have to compare pipelines in Go to pipelines in Haskell

check out the "power series, power serious" paper by doug-macllroy. he does that...

As jerf said, this is a little different since it's comparing to lazy io rather than pipes or conduit.

the 'squinting at power series' paper by mcllroy is very cool demonstration of this technique using new-squeak

To help the lazy:

http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/squint.pdf

(it's also linked at the bottom of the article)

That appears to compare Go channels to "simple" lazy Haskell. A more apt Haskel comparison would be to something like "pipes" or "conduit", which will be quite different.