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Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2009 12:01:47 +0000
From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
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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!
>=20
> That is, if they have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic
> solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser,
> and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor!
>=20
> uriel
>=20

Breaking news: bash now uses mysql to store your history,  environmental
variables, et cetera.

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--=20
Jake Todd
// If it isn't broke, tweak it!

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