Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2007 07:05 schrieb Maurício:
(...) 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...
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As long as we use current interfaces, no one would deny it.
I thought Conal did, but it turned out that he just had a wider concept of RTS than I.
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.
Agreed, but until then, we need IO to write 'real' programmes. We can already encapsulate it somewhat using libs like TV, as I learnt yesterday, but even more encapsulation wouldn't be bad.
Best, Maurício
Cheers, Daniel