Applications Messaging Standard

Alasdair Allan aa at astro.ex.ac.uk
Thu Feb 15 11:00:10 PST 2007


Tony Linde wrote:
> One point since we're mentioning languages: do other languages have  
> the concept of a 'home' directory? We know that it'll work for java  
> and .net languages, but do python, perl etc have commands to get  
> the 'home' directory which will return the same directory as java  
> does?

Yes, because the concept of a home directory is one which underlies  
most of the modern operating systems. It's an operating system layer  
thing, not a language layer thing.

Al.



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