lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]

[walter harms]

hi list,

I use sh as glue a lot, saves time from trivial tasks and you have
pretty standard system. dropping a /bin/sh would be a real error.

since there is interest in that topic:
what about a collection of pointers to webpages with small/embedded languages ?
that collection would give anyone a starting point to look at no mater
if that language is ever implemented into busybox.

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/

re,
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Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:28:01PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:52:36PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
>> A new scripting language or something based on Lua might be desirable.
>> While Lua is very small to implement I suspect the memory usage is
>> larger than it should be and I know the performance will be bad on
>> many embedded systems since all arithmetic is floating point. Still, I
>> like Lua.. :)
> 
> Chiming in a bit late, it seems..
> 
> Why on earth do we want any scripting _in_ busybox?
> 
> AFAIR, we don't want (resp. didn't want until recently) these in busybox
> -) filesystem utilities (bad example as there currently is a big bloated
>    batch in there -- e2fsprogs -- that noone cares to shrink nor really
>    maintain)
> -) compilers (i'd immediately put in tcc, because it is relatively small
>    -- <100k -- and relatively useful, as in somewhat useable C89 support)
> 
> One project that may be of real use is to export a zlib compatible
> interface, as mentioned before, but i didn't yet see any proposal for
> this one.
> 
> cheers,
> Bernhard
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