Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:43:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Andrew Hannam <hannama@fan.net.au> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org>, FreeBSD Small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Command-line i/f Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071438270.27871-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <000101bdf1e4$5e0279e0$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Andrew Hannam wrote: > With all this discussion on Forth, I ask myself why people are looking for > alternatives to the most common script language/command line (/bin/sh). The ...and I forgot to add that /bin/sh scripts don't completely solve our problems. /bin/sh requires many additional utilities in order to build a usable script, such as "test", "echo", "date", "expr", "kill" etc, etc... However, I admit that it's syntax is more known that that of Forth ;-) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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