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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: in-memory editing with EDT or EVE
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:02:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:35:41 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Doing in memory editing is not quite as basic. But it is possible.
> With EDT and TPU on VMS.

The idea of having callable libraries with a fixed API, as opposed to 
spawning separate processes via command lines, sounded quite appealing, 
back in the 1980s, for these sorts of tasks. But in the real world, it 
turned out to be the inferior solution.

Unix got it right. But then, Unix always had a better command-line 
interface than any DEC-original OS.