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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:38:37 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:26:56 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
> 
>>> The unix philosophy of handling the passing of command line
>>> parameters to the programs is, I think, time tested,
>>
>> Really? How does this philosophy apply to modern software? Let's
>> take internet browser, compiler IDE, office tools, database as
>> typical examples...
> 
> If they take command line parameters to launch -- and many of them do
> -- they will at that point behave like any other command line
> program. And after that their behaviour is surely irrelevant to
> this discussion?

Isn't it the behavior which is supposed to be controlled by the command
line? What else is the command line "philosophy" for?

(Obviously, any more or less complex behavior cannot be controlled by this
way. Secondly, that little what could, still does not fit into the pattern
of shell's parsing.)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de