[FM Discuss] Andy's concerns about my new chapter in CommandLineIntro

[Bill McConnaughey]

It would be going pretty far afield to attempt to discuss all the programs 
that use command lines. The focus of my chapter is not such a program, but 
how to make one. The program presented there is really much too trivial to 
be useful except as an example showing how to call readline, how to save 
and recall command lines, how to process them, and how to make and use 
command files. This is all stuff that took me some time to discover when I 
was starting it.
Related material that I think would be appropriate in CommandLineIntro is 
construction of (or use of, if one already exists) a good command line 
input system that can be used on a graphical screen. I mentioned the one I 
made for experix, but I do not claim that it is "good".
It would also be interesting to see a comparison of different models for 
command line parsing, I mean stack-based (as in my example) vs. other 
methods. Some discussion of this could help people who are struggling with 
the bizzare syntactical tangles found in bash scripts.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on another subject:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do people have to do so much quoting of
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