Re: [RFC PATCH 05/28] cli: lil: Rename some functions to be more like TCL

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-08T16:21:50Z

Dear Sean,

In message <d8447d79-f1d4-8a2f-39b9-a6650c936b88@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
...
> And yet, this is not the field we compete in. While bourne-style shells
> can take advantage of a multi-threaded environment, embedded shells tend
> to implement a much wider set of languages. See [1] for a survey of
> examples.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages

"Embedded scripting languages" is probably not a good match for what
we are discussing. I don't think this comparison was made for
restricted boot loader environments, but for use in general purpose
/ embedded operating systems.

Hey, they even list Forth there. Maybe somebody should port
OpenBoot, so we can have a Forth interpreter as new commandline
language? We could implement device trees in the old, traditional
way then, too :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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