Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:37:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: project: editor Message-ID: <199705111937.MAA06132@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705111229.FAA01208@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at May 11, 97 05:29:31 am
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> You are correct I do need a scripting language .The question is which one? > > Not sure that I like tcl for this sort of thing .. however I am considering > it . The problem that I have with tcl for end users is that it is not > an intuitive language nor is it well structured unless one uses something > like tcl / incr. I have to think about it a little longer and explore > other alternatives . I think that wksh has a number of significant advantes for this type of work: o It's the SVR4 answer to the same problem o Script portability across UNIX clone OS's o Legacy Bourne shell scripts will run with few changes o It's required for Open UNIX Standard compliance The only real drawback is that there isn't a pd implementation (I admit that this is a whopper of a drawback, but a grammar-based set of changes in light of the wksh book shouldn't be too hard). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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