From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 22:59:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E38016A402 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:59:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B5243D46 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:59:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3RMwoWv003144; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k3RMwm6I003143; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:58:48 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20060427225848.GC2601@thought.org> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> <20060427031043.GA69851@gothmog.pc> <20060427214854.GA2601@thought.org> <20060427221534.GC66819@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060427221534.GC66819@gothmog.pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting languages... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:59:07 -0000 On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:15:34AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-04-27 14:48, Gary Kline 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