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What is Hotwire?

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What is Hotwire?

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Hotwire is an object-oriented hypershell. It is a shell designed for systems programming (files, processes), and thus it is in the same conceptual category of software as the Unix shell+terminal and Windows PowerShell. (To learn more interactively than reading background here, you could try downloading a version of Hotwire for your operating system and experiment with it; see the links on the left.) The goal of the Hotwire project though is to create a better systems programming shell than both Unix and PowerShell. We call it a hyper-shell because Hotwire blends the concepts of a systems-oriented shell with a modern graphical user interface display. It takes advantage of your desktop environment rather than being a text box. It retains some advantageous attributes of a shell such as keyboard command orientation, interactivity, completion, and scripting. From an implementation perspective, at the heart of Hotwire is the concept of asynchronous object-oriented pipeline processing. Layere