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Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!
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Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die! |
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Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:50:30 +0100 |
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:14:50AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Both perl and python are not stable. `sh' hasn't changed much in a
> > decade and probably won't for another decade if ever. `sh' is more
> > than adequate for the job. If you must reach for something more,
> > especially on this list, for gosh sakes, pick something rooted in
> > stable standards: reach for SCSH, you traitors.
>
> If SCSH (or even Guile) really is comparable in portability to Perl,
> and if we were not concerned with having a large pool of potential
> contributors (and we might not be), and if we don't think that the
> size of the existing base of systems with the language in question
> already installed is relevant, then of course I'd rather use Scheme.
> My initial feeling was that at least one of the items above was
> probably false, but if not, then that's great.
How about 'gu', a really portable guile kernel that can be used to
bootstrap? It seems that a lot of the portability problems of 'sh' are
syntax / feature set problems. Wouldn't it be worth the effort to
work on a (non-interactive) guile-core shell?
Ralf Mattes
- AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/02/15
- AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/02/15
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Rob Browning, 2003/02/15
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/02/15
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Tom Lord, 2003/02/15
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, tomas, 2003/02/18
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Rob Browning, 2003/02/18
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!,
rm <=
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, tomas, 2003/02/19
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Rob Browning, 2003/02/21
- Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!, Rob Browning, 2003/02/15