Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:00:54 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base Message-ID: <AANLkTinHtzt=ELPvQBaaRBUzN-U88EXDMenZwrRsY3NL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100818134341.GA88861@johnny.reilly.home> References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <4C650B75.3020800@FreeBSD.org> <4C651192.9020403@FreeBSD.org> <i477eo$i4d$1@dough.gmane.org> <4C673898.2080609@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTim_prShRiHkLnFbhek9%2Beaa-KaJ5oZtNo%2BLd0K1@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008152240370.66595@qbhto.arg> <20100818134341.GA88861@johnny.reilly.home>
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> wro=
te:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:15:55PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> got any other suggestions?
>
> This is very much a "sorry I asked" question, but is none-the
> less quite a good one, given the size of the hole to be plugged.
>
> I think that a reasonable answer for this sort of thing might be
> one of the dynamic languages that compiles to C, like (perhaps)
> one of the schemes (chicken, gambit-C, bigloo, etc). =A0You get
> the benefit of flexibility and dynamism with good regexp and
> data structure ability, good performance, and only requiring the
> build tools available in the base system, as long as you don't
> want to be the developer: just ship the C code (as well as the
> source, of course).
>
> Unfortunately it seems that quite a lot of people have issues
> with lisp syntax these days.
+1 for a scheme shell, but not for the heavy-weight variety that
compiles to C, as that would tie them to a subset of ${ARCH}es.
After all LISP-like syntax is *still* more common and prevalent
than Lua, e.g. in Elisp, guile, esh, scsh and a lot of other apps
that use it as a small language. So we can expect more users
to be at least partially familiar with it. And there *are* lightweight
MIT- or BSD-licensed scheme interpreters out there too:
http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-standards#implementations
-cpghost.
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