From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447a948bb64464c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-16 22:26:00 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!linus!mbunix!emery From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: I have a question... Date: 14 Oct 94 14:16:10 Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Message-ID: References: <1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: goldfinger.mitre.org In-reply-to: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de's message of Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:46:56 GMT Date: 1994-10-14T14:16:10+00:00 List-Id: >I should say that if a UNIX program needs to ask the user for a file >name, something must be wrong with its design. Some Unix programs are filters. They read standard input, and write to standard output. This is a SMALL SUBSET of Unix programs. Compilers, for instance, may well ask for a filename if the user provides no filename on the command line. Thus this assertion (that a Unix program that has to ask for a filename is 'bad') is not valid. dave -- --The preceeding opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of --The MITRE Corporation or its sponsors. -- "A good plan violently executed -NOW- is better than a perfect plan -- next week" George Patton -- "Any damn fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you -- all screwed up" James Hollingsworth -------------------------------------------------------------------------