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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: Language support for  flexible handling of system-detected
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Date: 29 Mar 2002 02:19:47 +0000 (GMT)
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Ned Holbrook  <ned@mac.com> wrote:
>Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> How do you do that with "clickodrome"* IDE ?
>
>With a scripting language. As it turns out, a UI is just that. Most well 
>designed systems also have interfaces for non-user-driven input.

IME most UIs are not built on top of a scripting language. I would
be interested to know about systems that are as easily scriptable as
the Unix tools; by easily I mean using well-known scripting languages.

Tony.
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