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From: ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <7f7R02Sr038b01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 09:41:43 GMT
References: <2201@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Nov10.231801.29933@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Reply-To: ked01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
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In article <1990Nov10.231801.29933@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
> In article <2201@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
> +While I agree that flexibility in whitespace is a boon, I also think that
> +adding yet another character (or combination of characters), to mean 'pipe' is
> +a far more restrictive move than simply saying that the character preceding a
> +pipe character must be a space.
> 
> What is restrictive about it?  It doesn't limit what you can do in any way
> that I can fathom.  Strictly speaking, it is less restrictive, since one
> wouldn't have to require whitespace around it.
> 
> +I don't think Unix is all right or holy either, and in fact I see a lot of
> +rather severe limitations in various aspects of it that we do not suffer from
> +on the Amiga.
> 
> Amen, Brother.
> 
> +-larry

Nope ... nothing "right or holy" about any of this kind of stuff.

On the other hand, I've always been of the school of thought that says that
a computer should be designed to be adaptable to work with *my* work habits.

I should not be required to adapt to *its* work habits.

IMO, *everything* in the user/machine interface should be programmable.  This
includes choice of wildcards and other "special symbols", as well as aliases,
keymaps, pagers, shells, etc, etc, etc.

/kim

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