[Cialug] GUI OS written in Assembly

[Nathan Stien]

On 5/17/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
> Ugh. That's disgusting. It'd be more cool to see the opposite, a GUI OS
> written in python, perl or basic.
>
> Ooh, it could start with a bash like shell that will return python
> objects instead of plain text. If stdout/stderr is redirected, the
> object itself will be passed to the input of the next program, otherwise
> the object's __str__ method will be called.

One function call to retrieve text wouldn't work well for continuous
pipelines.  They'd have to return generator objects so you could keep
yielding grep results or whatever.  :-)


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