According to Larry Wall: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:27:36PM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: > : Ha, I'm sure it could probably be done, but of course "most" of what > : the shell does it invoke other programs, so in the common case it still > : wouldn't give you portability to non-Unix-like platforms. > > Just translate it to a language that has most of Unix semantics built-in. :-)
Unless I've lost the thread of this discussion, that won't work. Microparrot can't be built with e.g. a call to readlink(), because the (non-)existence of readlink() is exactly the kind of thing that must be probed for. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I don't really think it is a question of bright people and dumb people, but rather people who can see the game they're playing and those who can't." -- Joe Cosby
