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- Subject: Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting
- From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:00:28 +0400
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 06:07, Jim Jennings
<jennings.durham.nc+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:33:22 +0400, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I've set up a project on GitHub:
>>>> http://github.com/lua-shellscript/lua-shellscript
> Since it appears that this project will be the lucky recipient of the
> efforts of several people (and it should -- this is another good
> domain for Lua), I would like to point out some relevant prior work
> that may provide insight, or failing that, inspiration.
> In a project called "Scheme Shell" or "scsh" [1], Olin Shivers and
> others demonstrated a number of innovative ways of adding shell-like
> features to a robust and powerful language (in their case, Scheme).
> The design discussion in [2] is especially interesting, in part
> because it contrasts what makes a good interactive shell with what
> makes a good shell programming language.
<...>
Thank you, Jim, for the kind words and a good reference for our work.
Scheme Shell is an interesting project, I never seen it before.
Will study it :)
Alexander.