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==Is this a task, really?== |
==Is this a task, really?== |
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How can this be a task if it has no goals to achieve in it? Perhaps it should be converted into a category? –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 12:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC) |
How can this be a task if it has no goals to achieve in it? Perhaps it should be converted into a category? –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 12:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC) |
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== Terminals? == |
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The concept of "what is a terminal" has some ambiguities. |
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For example, some languages, which interact only with a single class of hardware, have a much simpler job than other languages which deal with a wide variety of hardware. |
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Consider, for example, |
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# a language which interacts with a browser (like javascript), |
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# a language which runs only on certain hardware (like some dialects of basic), |
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# a language which uses some specialized graphical environment (like logo), |
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# a language which probably can assume unix is present (like awk), |
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# a language in typical use might have to deal with any of the above cases, or others... (like java) |
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Perhaps these tasks could do with an explicit statement that any kind of terminal control is acceptable? |
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--[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:16, 15 October 2010 (UTC) |