From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 11:26: 9 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 EDB8237B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D5643E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6GINdXB089394; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:23:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Antony T Curtis Cc: Mark Murray , Jon Mini , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An odd scripting language In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:17:06 BST." <3D346322.1060902@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:23:39 +0200 Message-ID: <89393.1026843819@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <3D346322.1060902@ntlworld.com>, Antony T Curtis writes: >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... I'd love to see John Hartman's TSO-PIPES under UNIX :-) Get them to release it under BSDL and we'll rock :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message