The "loop and a half"

[bartc]

On 09/10/2017 05:49, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Generally, my preferred editor is nano, since it lives within those
> requirements but still has a decent UI. It's not always available
> though, and it's useful to know how to manage without it. But even
> though you won't always be doing this sort of thing, it's definitely
> something that a *programming language designer* should be aware of.
> Basic networking is critical to any modern language.

That's an odd opinion given that modern languages don't even want to 
have basic input and output as part of the language; they're offloaded 
to a library. And in your example, which I don't really understand, it 
seems more like the headache of the application.

(Where a language allows elements of a program to be disseminated across 
a network, that's rather different, and an advanced feature that only 
some languages might have. Not all.)

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bartc