On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:36:04AM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: : According to Larry Wall: : > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:27:36PM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: : > : Ha, I'm sure it could probably be done, but of course "most" of what : > : the shell does it invoke other programs, so in the common case it still : > : wouldn't give you portability to non-Unix-like platforms. : > : > Just translate it to a language that has most of Unix semantics built-in. :-) : : Unless I've lost the thread of this discussion, that won't work. : Microparrot can't be built with e.g. a call to readlink(), because the : (non-)existence of readlink() is exactly the kind of thing that must : be probed for.
Sorry, I've obviously been overusing smileys lately. Tell you what, I'll start putting two smileys when I'm really joking. :-) :-) Larry
