From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 10:20:57 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 641B937B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB6A43E58 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6GHKjYm014829; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:20:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with UUCP id g6GHKj63014828; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:20:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6GHFauH034332; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:15:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200207161715.g6GHFauH034332@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Jon Mini Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An odd scripting language References: <20020716073232.GD55378@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020716073232.GD55378@elvis.mu.org> ; from Jon Mini "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:32 PDT." Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:15:36 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > 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. > This is an interesting concept. Fraught with problems, but nonetheless > interesting. Yes. _Very_ interesting :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message