On Mar 5, 2:17 am, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi Chas, > > On Friday 04 Mar 2011 21:32:31 Chas Emerick wrote: > > > FYI, "ClojureScript" is generally taken to be the name of a > > Javascript-hosted runtime for Clojure. Anyway… > > Yes, well, it was just a tentative name. I thought of calling it "lurk" or > "lurking" as well (descended from "Arc" -> "Park" -> "Spark" -> "lurk"). But a > rose by any other name, etc. > > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > a Clojure API and a convenient command line utility for > > > performing quick system admin tasks, text manipulation tasks, command > > > line scripting, etc. similar to the use cases of bash/awk/sed or bash > > > along with /usr/bin/perl > > > I've actually come to think that perl may be a great Clojure host language; > > the result would presumably be useful in the ways you've described. I > > presume someone who actually knows perl well will beat me to implementing > > it. > > Do you mean perl 5 or Parrot (the VM for Rakudo Perl 6 and many other > languages)? Maybe both naturally.
There are some interesting alternatives to JVM worth considering to implement (a viable subset of) Clojure: 1. V8 JavaScript Engine 2. Parrot VM 3. Guile 2.0 (Clojure can be a front end) Regards, Shantanu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
