From: GISAI (gis_ai@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 11:13:07 MDT
--- Ben Houston <ben@exocortex.org> wrote:
> Gordon Worley wrote:
> > gordon% cp ~/memory/idea03723
> /Sysop/Alice/incoming/
> > sysop# checkidea -Fa ~/Alice/incoming /* | echo
> --user Alice
> > alice% (after seeing the ideas incoming to ver)
> evaluateidea
> > /Sysop/Alice/incoming/*
> > alice% cp [list of ideas to accept] ~/memory/[new
> idea numbers]
>
> Looks like a language to me. BTW a language is
> simply a means of
> communication through the use of a set of shared
> symbols (ie. a
> standard). That standard can be C++, English, XML
> DTD, Ethernet
> packets....
Not quite. The language is hidden inside idea03723.
The
above commands constitute a communication protocol,
not
a language (of course, a communication protocol is
also
a "language", but not in the sense used in this thread)
=====
GISAI
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