On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
What language could I write a script in (no graphics, simply text
in, text out) that would run on all the computers used by Friam
folks?
Javascript!
Well, it is certainly lurking on all of our systems that have a
browser, that's for sure! But if I just send folks a javascript file,
how are they to execute it, and how are they to specify stdin/out?
I really am serious here: I'd like to know which scripting language
and runtime is reasonably likely to be on our systems. Its pretty
grim if there's not a reasonable answer!
The specific stunt I'm looking at takes a text file in, and converts
it to morse code. Also the reverse, take in morse code and translate
it to ascii. Dead simple and kinda fun. But to share it with others,
I'd like a script that could work on most systems.
-- Owen
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