Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:43:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>, FreeBSD Small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810042239180.20712-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199810032345.TAA21910@whizzo.transsys.com>
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > Again, I fully agree with you - that's also my intention. And I see a > > Forth -based shell as a means to accomplish it - to glue all these > > elements together, at the same time giving it flexibility and programming > > abilities far beyond those of /bin/sh. > > I can certainly see how having an extensible shell would be a very > attractive thing. But if you expect mere mortals to be able to > run (and extend) the thing, I think a FORTH-based approach is doomed > to fail (again). > > Why wouldn't something based on TCL be a better choice? Sysadmins are > probably more likely to be familiar with it (perhaps due to experience > with "expect"). It has a pretty reasonable syntax, and perhaps > a more familair procedural type model. The reason fo this is very simple: size. Give me a complete TCL interpreter in 50kB, and then I'll begin to think seriously about using it. OTOH, if you define a carefully constructed set of Forth words, normal users may even be unaware of running a Forth interpreter, and power-users will have a power tool. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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