From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 0:32:36 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 67A9237B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F33E43E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baka@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1921) id E882DAE165; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:32 -0700 From: Jon Mini To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: An odd scripting language Message-ID: <20020716073232.GD55378@elvis.mu.org> References: <200207151718.g6FHIkof007662@dotar.thuvia.org> <20020715182957.GA32690@lizzy.catnook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:56:07PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At the same time, I don't think we can ever "be safe" with some > standard scripting language in the base system, because that > scripting language will change over time. And my guess is that > any good scripting language will eventually evolve into it's own > "OS-neutral" platform, and thus grow into a monster that we won't > want to have in our base system. Thus, any good, standard, > popular, and useful scripting language is probably going to be > a bad choice over time. That claim should manage to irritate > everyone else... > > This is an unwinnable debate, imo. Truely. 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. This is an interesting concept. Fraught with problems, but nonetheless interesting. -- Jonathan Mini http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message