On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:47:07AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I'm sorry, but it's the *operating system* that provides the ability to > glue programs together. *nix os's work fine, but try using the tools you > describe on one of Wesleys toys and see how much glue you find. To the > best of my knowledge, *all* languages that run on *nix have the ability to > read stdin/write to stdout, so by your definition, all languages are glue.
what is my definition? i did not give any definition. you were supposed to extract the definition by the way i grouped the languages. > But without the | functionality provided by the os, that's meaningless. | as syntax is not provided by the OS but by the shell. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
