Re: Pre-alpha scripting engine

[Tomas Ebenlendr]

> So a scripting language should fit into the semantics of the 
> command-line interface. For example, Lisp is not acceptable, because it 
> is too difficult to use as a shell. I don't know if PHP-like syntax 
> fulfills this requirement, but I don't like it very much, because PHP 
> is really similar to Perl (which is known as a maker of write-only 
> code).
> 
> I'd like to hear others' opinions. I have been thinking this issue for 
> some years, but I still don't know a good answer.
> 
> Okuji

PHP-like thing (or embedding LUA language) seems good to me because it
can be very small (#lines, #bytes - binary). On the other hand
shell-like thing will know many people (but it will not be regular bash,
with command `[', sed, and arrays and many other things that are need, when
you want to write a complex script), so I don't know if the shell-like
language will not be confusing because of not exactly same as sh. I'm
woting for simple shell-like language as primal language, and for
modules with extended languages, that can `compute' more complicated
things. I.e. grub-commands are same for both, but in the extended
language you can simply use asociative arrays and other advanced tools,
that are not needed in standard (=simple) scenario.
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