Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: christian vick <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:24:18 +0100
on 1/29/02 9:56 PM, garbanzito at email@hidden wrote:
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> These unix shells will probably make most scripting additions unnecessary.
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yes, we are so used to the idiosyncratic syntax of scripting
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additions, why not think of shell commands as one big OSAX
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with gnarly syntax rules... i really don't see the OSAX
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world as some kind of beautiful, well-worked out syntactical
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heaven.
An OSAX which only represents shell commands is not very attractive to me
because of the portability problem with OSAXen.
I would prefer a handler library which wraps shell commands in a nice
manner.
An OSAX which is faster or has unique commands is another thing, but the
portability problem remains. As long as there is no method to bundle OSAXen
into applets they will be avoided by me whenever possible.
Greetings
cris :-)