Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More DMouse 1.03 bugs Message-ID: <2067@sugar.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 03:56:26 GMT References: <8805171931.AA07452@decwrl.dec.com> <9163@oberon.USC.EDU> <5768@cup.portal.com> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 39 In article <5768@cup.portal.com>, doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes: > I wrote about creating a script language for Commodities Exchange. > Peter da Silva replied: > >AREXX is a decent scripting language. It's not well suited to handling > >things other than text strings directly, but you can put in a level of > >abstraction to hide the stuff. > Hmmm...I didn't use any arguments about technical merit. Ok, consider > this...what I was talking about for CX doesn't need *any* of the features > of AREXX. It doesn't need pattern matching, it doesn't need real smart > IPC control, it doesn't need control structures. AREXX doesn't have real smart IPC control. It has the ability to send a text string to a named port, and get a text string in response. But that's quibbling. It may well be overkill. > harder than it would be with a simple script language. And it would be > overkill to boot. CX already supports all of the *functionality* you > need; it's just that currently you need to tell it what you want via > a C program. I'm proposing a more human friendly interface, that even > non-programmers could use, that's all. Now a general-purpose scripting package is also a good idea. I've been thinking of Xlisp, but it's pretty big (over 64K). A small forth-like language would be ideal. A tiny lisp would be better. Matt Dillon's DME/DTERM stuff is OK, though the lack of variables in DTERM is a big pain in the neck. Perhaps encapsulating these routines would be a good idea. Or maybe ripping the interpreter stuff out of Micro-Emacs. > It's not like you to have knee jerk reactions, Peter. Usually you think > things out very clearly. Thanks for saying so. I try. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These may be the official opinions of Hackercorp.