Re: Pre-alpha scripting engine

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 14:01, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> But as I said before, the most important thing that needs to be done
>> is that Okuji agrees with the syntax.
>
> Honestly speaking, I don't know.
>
> I also prefer that it looks more like BASH, but shell scripting is 
> sometimes very ugly (e.g. "i = `expr $i + 1`"). So I don't know what 
> the best is.

[...]

> 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.

A sane bash look alike would seem the best to me.  I don't have
problems with PHP-like syntax either.  As long as it is sane, looks
like other languages and is easy to learn.

Thanks,
Marco