On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > I see your point, I guess I can accept that. I still object to the idea > > of a whole other suite of programs just to run within the editor, but I > > guess it's immaterial whether the window system is part of the editor > > or the editor is part of the window system. > > right! > > i'd also add that a program is much easier to reuse than a function > within a program. > > - erik > > Yes, which makes one wonder about type systems in programming languages and if they're any better than documented conventions of I/O. (i think they may not be, but they serve some documentation purposes all their own) As an example: I'm a rather big fan of systems like beanstalkd over say an AMQP implementation because beanstalkd's core is in a line base text protocol, and you can write a client for it in a shell if you really wanted to (it's trivial, I've done it in ZSH). I can't say the same for AMQP implementations or JMS etc.
