Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:15:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@scms.utmb.edu> To: mark@grondar.za Cc: baka@elvis.mu.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An odd scripting language Message-ID: <200207161915.g6GJF2Of057411@histidine.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <200207161715.g6GHFauH034332@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On 16 Jul, 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. > >> This is an interesting concept. Fraught with problems, but nonetheless >> interesting. > > Yes. _Very_ interesting :-) > > M Icon, Icon, Icon! :-) http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ Professionally designed (by the inventor of snobol), right kind of license, ability to do X graphics, if need be, but not required, even better than perl in string processing (IMO). -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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