🚀 go-pugleaf

weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
> OK, what does the Mac need? Let's have a useful discussion and maybe, just
> maybe, someone from Apple will say "Gee, neat idea" and implement it.
>
> 1) A command line window. Forget religous grounds against doing 
> this. It'd be useful in A LOT OF cases.
> 
> 2) A job language. PC users shouldn't scoff too much here, BATCH is
>  	...

Apple isn't unaware of this problem. Its precisely to make up for this sort of
deficiency that MPW and the VERY powerful script language of SADE were created.
Problem is, non-programmers as well as programmers who consider MPW a giant
kludge (I admit I haven't used the newest version) are still out in the cold.

A partial hack at a solution is on the way. Minix will be available RSN and
will probably satisfy any UNIX user. It will run as an application and support
the full generality of the csh, including regular expression matching, pipes,
and a command language.

Unfortunately, this still isn't what we want, because it's not an integrated
part of the Mac OS. It is, however, probably as close to a solution as we'll
ever get.
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Pete Keleher						pete@titan.rice.edu