Re: Pre-alpha scripting engine

[Serbinenko Vladimir <serbinenko.vova@list.ru>]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

>On Thursday 20 January 2005 18:10, Serbinenko Vladimir wrote:
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>>The problem with guile is that it has no $ before variable which
>>makes it difficult to integrate with shell. I discovered that bash
>>and PHP can even coexist!!
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>As I said, Lisp is not good, because it is too difficult to use on the 
>command-line interface. But I don't know if PHP is easy to use on it. I 
>used PHP many years ago, but I forget it.
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>>But I don't know bash very well so if I'm wrong please e-mail it. Now
>>I'm rewriting the parser for easier integrating(thanks Marco).
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>There are many differences. The critical point is that you cannot write 
>this in PHP:
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>kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
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Normally not but it's easy to extend it

>This is not a valid expression in PHP. If you want to do the same in 
>PHP, it could look like this:
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>kernel("/boot/vmlinuz", "root=/dev/hda1")
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>As I mentioned in the previous mail, I don't think it is a good idea to 
>have multiple languages. So the important question here is if you want 
>to use PHP on the command-line interface or not. I suspect that this is 
>not feasible.
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Imho multiple languages will just wasting of time. As a matter of fact 
my prevous letter was just some thoughts

>If your intention is to make your scripting engine standard in GRUB, I'd 
>recommend considering what you really want to do with a scripting 
>language under GRUB. IIRC, you haven't described what your motivation 
>is.
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My motivation is an automatisation of booting e.g. run different 
commands depending on circumstances (time, system crash, wake-on-..., 
undoing booting preparation(hide,unhide,...))

>I think the choice of a scripting language depends on what we really 
>want to address. In other words, what do we want to define as the scope 
>of a scripting language? Do we want to remove C code as much as 
>possible, or, do we want to have a merely preprocessor? It is not a new 
>idea to have a scripting language to make low-level functions (suppose 
>Forth on Open Firmware), but I doubt if this is worth doing, because 
>writing an interpreter can be more complex than writing device drivers.
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I think that low-level scripting language will be an error but perhaps 
some easy scripts like running cmp with MBR and file parsing its output 
and pausing booting if difference detected

>Okuji
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So I'm waiting for your decision about language. But after all now I 
think that bash will be good idea

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