On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I have that on my Palm (along with FORTH and LISP :-)
I had one of the Forth's, the one that can compile binaries on board.
There is a GPL'ed basic called SmallBasic which seems promising.
> I have (or had) a stand-alone compiler around here somewhere. I haven't
> a clue what to do with it, but it sounded promising.
When I get my Debian installation going I will compile it under that.
> A shell or scripting language used along with /bin/sh is much more a
> likely target; I've considered using Ruby (a very NICE language!!!! -
> shameless plug :-) but it seems to be large, similarly to Perl. Perhaps
> Lua is the answer. I don't know Lua syntax (yet :-) but it should be
> doable.
I am learing lua as well. It seems flexible, but I dont know it it will
make a better perl than sh. It has potential for configuration processing.
It might be better suited for perl-like processing that is too cumbersom
in shell script.
> I've already ported eforth; perhaps someone should consider....? On my
> Palm, Lua is 115k, Lisp (mylisp) is 99k (+40k data), but FORTH is 40k
> (+50k data). FORTH beats all for size (always did).
Do you have an lrp package I can look at?
> > I noticed that tomsrtbt disk has been using it for a while. It seems to be
> > a healthy cross between Perl, C and Pascal. It does not have some of the
> > power or Perl, but it is still an fine language.
>
> Interesting. Can you snarf it from tomsrtbt?
I will do that. I want to examine his examples. I would recommend looking
at his disk to see how and why he has used lua. It might not suit
LRP/LEAF. On the other hand it looks like a good 'poor man's perl' for a
small disk system.
Dale.
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