Hi Alex, I am interested in using Smalltalk as a scripting language for routine tasks (to replace sh, perl, python, ruby etc.).
It seems that you want to use it as an interactive shell language (to replace sh, bash, tcsh etc.). These are somewhat different goals. I am not sure if they are compatible, but it is interesting to explore. Does anyone know of any previous attempts to use Smalltalk or Smalltalk-like syntax for an interactive shell? David Lewis mentioned ExternalCommandShell as an example. Is that the state-of-the-art? - on On Feb 25, 2009, at 22:14, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > My dream is to completely get rid of bash and other awful shells. > > I remember to have seen a talk on a OO shell, where each command like > 'cat', 'ls', 'cd' where actually message sent to an instance of a > class Shell. The receiver would then be implicit. > Imagine a prompt like: > shell. > > Each command will then be a message sent to the object referenced by > the variable 'shell'. > > entering 'ls' will then invoke 'shell.ls'... > > Cheers, > Alexandre _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
