lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 13:37:40 UTC 2006


On 8/29/06, Roberto A. Foglietta <roberto.foglietta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > here is a list to start with
> > NOTE: i did not use any of them this is *only* a list !
> >
> > * PAWN http://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm
> > * Z-script http://www.zegraph.com/z-script/index.html
> > * LUA      http://www.lua.org/
> > * forth    http://www.forth.org
> > * gentree  http://www.gentee.com
> > * rc (plan9)    http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/
>
>  [roberto at GEDX0327 rc-1.7.1]$ size rc
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   62791    1276    4516   68583   10be7 rc
>
>  rc is a shell which not allow to run bash/ash script, but I think
> would not be difficult make a wrapper which are able to run bash
> scripting. Size reduction could appen if modified in order to compile
> against libbox. wrapper + rc could costitute shell-like-bash and a
> language script.
>

i have been playing with rc for some time and i have decided to forget
bash. i think its a nice addition to busybox.

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1. it takes more than a second to boot up
2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself



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