17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Paul Robichaux says:
I'd really like to see the toolkit in plain ol' C. I realize that other languages and systems have great advantages over C, but C is portable beyond belief.
I agree. By having a good toolkit in C, we'd have an easy time not just prototyping applications but building real and portable ones. I'd suggest that a streams mechanism, so you could attach various processes to a bunch of data in sequence the way unix filters work, would also be nice. That way sequences like compress -- des -- tran -- des -- idea -- radix-64ify could be really easily built. Perry