[clean-list] Re: Communicating with other programs (Monique Wittebrood & Marco Kesseler)

[Marco Kesseler]

From: "Siegfried Gonzi" <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at>
> From: Monique Wittebrood & Marco Kesseler <m.wittebrood@mailbox.kun.nl>
schrieb,
>
> clean-list-admin@cs.kun.nl schrieb:
>
> > Consider this: suppose that Clean 2.0 arrives tomorrow, together with
all
> > its sources. Are you going to guarantee that these sources get updated
> > frequently?
>
> How important are the I/O stuff for the users?
[...]
> Lets be honest: inventing the wheel is stupid.

Exactly.

[...]
> I mean the argument that the I/O stuff is not available for Unix/Linux
holds only -- in my opinion --at the first
> moment, because the GUI stuff does not include communicating with other
programs!

Yup. And one of the things I have been nagging about is simply to get some
priority to (language) support for interfacing with others. Opening up the
sources may be one way of getting this in case the clean team has not enough
resources.

regards,
Marco

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