Re: Is The Unix accessible through The Terminal Pane...

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The Translucent Amoebae <transamoebae@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is The Unix accessible through The Terminal Pane a fully programmable
language,
Or merely a tool to perform a very limited number of internal
operations?

Your questions suggests there's a whole lot you don't know about Unix.
What you see when you open a terminal window is a shell prompt. Shells
are interactive programs that allow you to access various parts of the
system. But shells are just one very small part of the system. For
instance, whenever you enter a shell command like "ls -al", or "man ls",
the shell actually launches a separate "ls" or "man" program. There are
probably hundreds of thousands of command-line programs available to you
in a default install of Mac OS X. As far as specific languages go, you
can program in just about any language you want on Mac OS X through
command-line compilers and interpreters, or though Xcode or other GUI
development environments. Shells, being interactive programs that accept
your input, have their own syntax or language. Put simply, Mac OS X is
through-and-through Unix, so you've got all the programs and tools
available to you that most any other Unix has.

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