On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> I'm sure the people in charge of writing the next version of the PoSix
> standard will be very happy to adopt your proposal!
> 
> That is, if they have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic
> solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own.
> 
> Of course, they could also move with the times, and adopt an XML
> format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and
> Web 2.0 compliant.
> 
> That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser,
> and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor!
> 
> uriel
> 

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