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On Jan 27, 2005 at 12:05 -0300, Andr? de Leiradella wrote:
> 
> But is there a script language out there that:
> 
> 1) Has a clear syntax
> 2) Has a small footprint
> 3) Doesn't come with lots of modules that you can't remove from the core
> 4) Has garbage collection
> 5) Compiles in almost every plataform/compiler
> 6) Is designed to embeded or is extremely easy to embed
> 9) Has a nice API
> 10) Is easy to extend
> 11) Is (not necessarely only) object oriented
> 
> Sure there are some that have almost all those characteristics, and
> I tried some of them. The main problems are with items 3, 5 and 6. I
> could't get any of Pike, Ferrite, ElastiC and Ruby to compile under
> Windows with BCC32.

At the risk of veering off topic, have you looked at JavaScript (via
Spidermonkey)?

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Thatcher Ulrich
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