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From: rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <04805.AA04805@babylon.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 23:21:41 GMT
References: <04725.AA04725@babylon.UUCP> <k7k9R5w163w@valnet>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <k7k9R5w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph
P. Hillenburg) 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.

And I thought the :-) was redundant in this case.

:-(

Ralph