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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:04:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base 
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008160950300.13918@gw.reifenberger.com>
In-Reply-To: <2295.1281943489@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <2295.1281943489@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
...
> PS: The sickening irony is that today we have two embedded languages,
> one in the kernel even, and it is the most crappy ones you can
> imagine: Forth and ACPI.
>

Besides the syntax FORTH ist the only embeddable high level language
which has both intepreter and compiler built in.
It has a small form factor too.

One alternative could be something like WABA (http://waba.sourceforge.net/).
Besides the wrong license it would mean to have pre-compiled byte code on the
FS and no chance to recompile on the fly...

Or ECMAScript as a pure interpreted language.

Bye/2
---
Michael Reifenberger
Michael@Reifenberger.com
http://www.Reifenberger.com




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