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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:38:37 +0000
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"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?