Scripting syntax: all expressions or declarations?
Damien Pollet
damien.pollet at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 15:57:40 UTC 2006
On 8/23/06, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> Why on earth does it need to be human readable?
Hmm, because we're humans?
> We can read it into a 'script runner' image.
How do you run a particular script from command line or another script
in bash/ruby/perl ?
> when examined in a text editor? Text editors are *so* last century.
Isn't Smalltalk older than emacs?
And text editors are still the main tool among non-smalltalkers.
Smalltalk scripting is about hiding the image aspect of Smalltalk: one
weird thing less to get used to in the short term should ease the
transition from traditional languages.
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Damien Pollet
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