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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <k7k9R5w163w@valnet>
Date: 6 Nov 90 22:47:55 GMT
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rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel) writes:

> 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.

No! We don't need Ada. This is what we have ARexx for. ARexx is much more 
powerful than Ada in that is allows direct control of existing processes.
> 
> Ralph


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