Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: new language, arch, furth, etc.

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 21 Jul 2004 09:38:23 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:22, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > So, by your reasoning the output of tla abrowse and similar should be
> > totally dismissed as problematic. Maybe you suggest to use xl for it?
> > 
> > After all, the summary of any revision may be as smart as:
> > 
> >   (if (is-developer) "added xl anywhere" "general improvements")
> > 
> > And is not it convenient if the abrowse output looks like:
> 
> If that output is trivial to parse [...]

The problem is not just to parse the Lisp code, such code should be
actually _executed_ in the virtual Lisp machine with all built-in
functions implemented to get the final data.

Writing xl interpreters is doable in languages like C, Perl and Python.
But not in shell scripts. These should better get the final tla output
formatted a-la OGDL.

Regards,
Mikhael.