Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:58:48 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting languages... Message-ID: <20060427225848.GC2601@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060427221534.GC66819@gothmog.pc> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> <20060427031043.GA69851@gothmog.pc> <20060427214854.GA2601@thought.org> <20060427221534.GC66819@gothmog.pc>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:15:34AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-04-27 14:48, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:10:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Don't you really mean ``C#'' by writing ``ch''? > > > > The only thing I recall reading about C# is that it was > > a DOS/Win C++ ish language. ch is a C/C++ scripting language > > that is like /bin/sh only with C syntax. Some C wizards > > created a perl regex library for ch; thus my question. > > I've never heard of `ch'. I know what `C#' is, what `csh' is, what > `sh', `ksh', `zsh' and several other shells are. I don't know what `ch' > is though :-/ softintegration.com developed it; it's partly free. Mostly for prototyping I think. Beyond that, dunno. > > > The fact that perl is everywhere is in its favor; perl > > gurus can deal with argc/argv in their *sleep*. I can't; > > but it might interest you that many years ago I ported > > perl from the Sun-3 to an IBM AIX 3090 (with all 6 CPU's). > > Worked fine. > > HEH! That must have been fun :) > :-) Yeh, that's putting it mildly, since AIX had Zero graphics 16, 17 years ago. The 3090 was about the size of a garbage truck! I ported tons of stuff to that beast.... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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