Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:23:39 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Jon Mini <baka@elvis.mu.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An odd scripting language Message-ID: <89393.1026843819@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:17:06 BST." <3D346322.1060902@ntlworld.com>
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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
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