Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Matthew Dempsky]

"Pierce T.Wetter III" <address@hidden> writes:

>   Oh, and something that uses RPN is an example of a "good" language?

You're missing the point -- Furth isn't necessarily a language that's
meant to be directly targeted by the end user.

>    The nice thing about JavaScript would be that for the minimal sort of
> programming I would expect in a config file, it would be very C like.

Again with the five gems argument.

>    Personally, I'd like some sort of tiny-C interpreter.

So code one up and stop whining.

> The problems I see with Furth, irrespective of the details like RPN are:
> 
>    1. No debuggers...

There's not even an interpreter yet, you expect a debugger?

>    2. No syntax award editing...
>    3. No test beds for double checking scripts...

Huh?

>    Is there an O'Reilly book for the language?

Is there an O'Reilly book for Arch's config scripts?  Better stop
using it.

You've mentioned your love of Python, but do you think the moment
Guido first got a running python interpreter he got a publishing
contract with O'Reilly to ensure there'd be a book for all the new
developers to use?  If every user held the same O'Reilly book
prerequisite for languages, Python would never have earned the user
base it has now.

-jivera