Jacob Todd wrote:
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
I'm sure the people in charge of writing the next version of the PoSix
standard will be very happy to adopt your proposal!
That is, if they have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic
solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own.
Of course, they could also move with the times, and adopt an XML
format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and
Web 2.0 compliant.
That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser,
and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor!
uriel
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Bill
