lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]

Tue Aug 29 12:54:05 UTC 2006

> 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.

 Cheers,
-- 
/roberto