[Oberon] How I know that nobody else USES ETHO ?

eas lab lab.eas at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 17:47:16 CET 2016


Apparently the populous USES what the market supplies.
So they all get the uniform current outlook/ideas.

How can a quick list of the newest files [ordered by recentcy]
NOT be one of the most basic/essential requirements.
It's as essential, but more difficult to know/remember than:
"what directory of the file tree you are currently in".

In the days of NativeOberon, I believe I hacked a script on ET.DO
which did:-
1. List all files with dates, one per line: System.Directory *\d
2... Rearrange the fields, so that the date is first, with
most-significant fields first
3.. Sort the lines
4.. Show only the first N

As I recall commands existed for <filters 1,2,3  above>.

I don't want to have to repeat the effort for V4.
This is only one of the countless utilities that ETHO could throw together, if
we had a mechanism to eg:-
  System.Directory *\d | <rearrange fields> | <sort lines> | <print
first LinesArg:N>

Yes, I remember: we've got a scheme interpreter in ETHO !
An extension to allow ETHO to concatenate-transformers, as above, should
be simple, compared to a scheme interpreter?

WDYS ?


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