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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>
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Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>,
	Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base 
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> 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
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