multi-language GUI / shells in Smalltalk

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri May 4 18:52:12 UTC 2007


what would be nice is to be able to debug squash scripts because this  
is always the problems with unix scripts for me. I'm always saying to  
myself in Smalltalk I would have put a break put and fix it in 10th  
of the time.

Stef

On 3 mai 07, at 23:39, Philippe Marschall wrote:

>> Once the above has been completed I hope to start another project.
>> I want to build a replacement for the Linux shell bash which I  
>> call squash.
>>
>> Squash would be a running Squeak image which provides the user  
>> with an
>> interface similar to when running the bash shell in Linux.
>> It would also be possible to write squash shell scripts that provided
>> functionality
>> similar to bash shell scripts.  Unlike bash shell scripts,  
>> however,  squash
>> shell
>> scripts would be compiled into files of byte codes called squash  
>> executable
>> files.
>> It would also be possible to have other languages whose compilers  
>> generate
>> squash executable files and have the squash shell execute them.




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