Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel
From: rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <04725.AA04725@babylon.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 90 12:09:28 GMT
References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com>
andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:

> 2. Amiga wildcards are regular expressions, more powerful
>    than the simple PC *

Since Ada is much more powerful than the AmigaDOS script
language, I'd like to see Ada as part of the AmigaShell.

> BTW, in the book _Cyteen_,  the main computer uses
> AmigaDOS wildcards...

... implemented in BCPL using TRIPOS? :-)

Ralph