> Funny fact I've actually "invented" this philosophy (drivers for every file format being installed, managed and exposed to applications and scripts by an OS)

> Funny fact I've actually "invented" this philosophy (drivers for every file format being installed, managed and exposed to applications and scripts by an OS) when I was a child. The Amiga got something like that with Workbench 2.0, actually: http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Datatypes_Library http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Datatypes_Library This is also very cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AREXX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AREXX > ARexx can easily communicate with third-party software that implements an "ARexx port". Any Amiga application or script can define a set of commands and functions for ARexx to address, thus making the capabilities of the software available to the scripts written in ARexx. > ARexx can direct commands and functions to several applications from the same script, thus offering the opportunity to mix and match functions from the different programs. For example, an ARexx script could extract data from a database, insert the data into a spreadsheet to perform calculations on it, then insert tables and charts based on the results into a word processor document.