From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 11:19:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E5937B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C3E43E67 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) Received: from ntlworld.com ([213.104.146.54]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020716181943.WAGR28874.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@ntlworld.com>; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:19:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3D346322.1060902@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:17:06 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020715 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: Jon Mini , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An odd scripting language References: <20020716073232.GD55378@elvis.mu.org> <200207161715.g6GHFauH034332@grimreaper.grondar.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray wrote: >>However, I am intruiged by your assertion here. It implies that perhaps >>a good direction to try would be to build a scripting language that is >>tied to FreeBSD, but contains elements that makes it easy to pick up >>by people who are already comfortable with the popular scripting languages. > > A solution here may be to pick up an earlier scripting language > that has been abandoned, but is nevertheless useful. I'm specifically > thinking of Perl4, but I imagine that TCL, the lisps, the BASICs > and other older "Toy" languages may yield up a useful base for an > OS-specific scripting language. I would suggest REXX... It's a mature scripting language which is drifting off into the sunset. It is easy to pick up - being a bit like BASIC... The only thing is - How would IBM react to it? Actually, I think IBM's Mike Colinshaw would love his language being used... >>This is an interesting concept. Fraught with problems, but nonetheless >>interesting. > > > Yes. _Very_ interesting :-) > > M -- Antony T Curtis BSc Unix Analyst Programmer http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message