From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 12:15:24 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 6264E37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from histidine.utmb.edu (histidine.utmb.edu [129.109.59.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0399343E4A for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@scms.utmb.edu) Received: from scms.utmb.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by histidine.utmb.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6GJF2Of057411; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:15:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson@scms.utmb.edu) Message-Id: <200207161915.g6GJF2Of057411@histidine.utmb.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:15:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Reply-To: "M. L. Dodson" Subject: Re: An odd scripting language To: mark@grondar.za Cc: baka@elvis.mu.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200207161715.g6GHFauH034332@grimreaper.grondar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 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