Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:51:29 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: project: editor Message-ID: <199705121851.LAA11870@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 1997 11:23:23 PDT." <199705121823.LAA07896@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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I will provide a loadable module interface as an attempt to support not just different script languages but also different functionality for instance snmp functionality. End of scripting wars for now . More on the doc project later on today. Regards, Amancio >From The Desk Of Terry Lambert : > > > I think that wksh has a number of significant advantes for this > > > type of work: > > By this I meant "embeddable scripting engines". > > > > o It's the SVR4 answer to the same problem > > > > > > o Script portability across UNIX clone OS's > > > > > > o Legacy Bourne shell scripts will run with few changes > > > > *Legacy* Bourne shell scripts for a yet nonexistant document program 8-? > > Legacy bourne scripts that won't have to be changed much to GUI-ize them. > > > > o It's required for Open UNIX Standard compliance > > > > So we could have a Open Unix compiliant document program? > > We could have an Open UNIX compliant OS. > > > > > The only real drawback is that there isn't a pd implementation (I > > > admit that this is a whopper of a drawback, but a grammar-based > > > set of changes in light of the wksh book shouldn't be too hard). > > > > Well, maybe I am a bit unimaginative, but I really can't imagine myself > > writing shell (Bourne, wksh, etc.) scripts in a document program 8-( > > I am afraid it wouldn't be something I (or even most people) would like. > > Well, I can't imagine myself writing TCL or PERL or Visual BASIC > scripts in a document program, so we are probably even. 8-). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.
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