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From: Boudewijn Dijkstra on 18 Jan 2010 03:52
Op Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:20:47 +0100 schreef Nick Keighley
<nick_keighley_nospam(a)hotmail.com>:
> On 13 Jan, 16:43, dj3va...(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.invalid wrote:
>> In article <4b4def88$0$22938$e4fe5...(a)news.xs4all.nl>,
>> [Jongware] <so...(a)no.spam.net> wrote:
>> >Walter Banks wrote:
>
>> >> Defining goals at a much higher level than C opens the possibilities
>> >> for automating algorithmic choices at the function level.
>>
>> >Aha -- wouldn't the logical end point be a programming language where
>> >you type "word processor", save it as source, compile, and have a word
>> >processor?
>>
>> Why bother to compile it? Just have it interpret on-the-fly.
>> That way you could even run it in interactive mode, and it's
>> sufficiently high-level that even non-programmers could usefully use
>> it.
>>
>> Unix people call this a "shell".
>
> I'm guessing you're trying to be funny/ironic.

I hope that was pretty obvious to most people.

> But in case you aren't,
> Unix has dozens of stranglely incompatible Command Line Interfaces
> that Unix people call "shells". None of them are word processors.

Indeed. But you misunderstood. Read again.



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