Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!xanth!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!rickfor From: rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List... Summary: clarification Message-ID: <4301@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 21 Mar 89 02:05:34 GMT References: <504@morgoth.UUCP> <3453@amiga.UUCP> <10942@well.UUCP> <7587@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Distribution: na Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 28 In article <7587@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes: > In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) writes: > >In article <4297@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest) writes: > >>Please, Pleeeeeeeeeeze, give me a real pipe. Please. > >This would be a huge improvement... > >>Meaning: list | sort | wc, et cetera. > > Come on, we've got real pipes. What you want is just syntactic sugar. > Something the shell should do. In fact, WShell (by Bill Hawes) does this. > Anyway, don't say "give me a real pipe", 'cause they did already. Say > "please, make pipes easier to use". Or just get WShell. > > -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) > -Wilson Lab, Cornell U. I' d like to clear up some of the confusion about my earlier posting, confusion that resulted because I was too vague. I'd like to see a real scripting language in 1.4, one that would include pipes a la Unix to GREATLY enhance it's power. I want this to come from Commodore, not because I think they'll do a vastly better job than what people are doing with things like arp or Wshell, but because then it will be STANDARD, and code will start appearing all over the place, plus other people can use the scripts I write. Someone sent me mail about how he was going to make Arp do this in the next release, and I think that's great - I can't wait to use it. But I still think that something that comes WITH the machine will turn out to be of more use than a 3rd party add-on, just because more people will use it, and think of things to do with it that I never would.