(...) Would you deny that any useful programme has to do at least some of the following: -accept programme arguments at invocation -get input, be it from a keyboard, mouse, reading files, pipes... -output a result or state info, to the monitor, a file, a pipe... ===
As long as we use current interfaces, no one would deny it. But after reading some stuff about Epigram language, I wonder if those ideas could not be used to write a better interface to computers. Then, all those tasks would be handled by your interface plug-ins, not by programs. Really, we need to do all of that today. But I believe reading from keyboard, files etc. should not be part of programs we write daily, just a task for a basic interface to which our programs should be linked. Best, Maurício