Re: Shell semantics in lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@gmail.com> wrote:
> ilua is nice, but basically just a repl.  ipython is like bash/ksh/...
> but with python.  or powershell if you prefer.

Ah, now that makes sense - my feeling is that Lua would make an
excellent shell scripting language, but a poor interactive shell (bash
is the other way around ;)) so these may be orthogonal requirements.
(but I would be happy to be shown to be wrong.)

As for Lua as a shell scripting language, there was a thread about
that recently:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-07/msg00087.html

Also, for Windows, see Grunt:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-02/msg00341.html

There's also luash

http://luaforge.net/projects/luash/

(I had an internal project of the same name, was an example with the
Penlight distribution. Although nicely cross-platform (and anything is
better than cmd.exe) and fully extendable with Lua, I regard it as an
experiment)

steve d.