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From: lgm@polaris.ih.att.com (Lawrence G. Mayka)
Subject: Re: Q: is there a small lisp-like scripting language?
In-Reply-To: UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de's message of Tue, 06 Dec 94 11:44:31 MEZ
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In article <17084A51FS85.UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Michael Burschik) writes:

   From: UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Michael Burschik)
   Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
   Date: Tue, 06 Dec 94 11:44:31 MEZ
   Organization: RHRZ Uni-Bonn

   I am looking for a small lisp dialect, which will run on Unix and can
   be used for scripting jobs for which you would normally use a language
   such as AWK or perl. Such a language should have good regexp support
   and handy constructs for mapping over lines of a file and similar records.
   Naturally, all this could be done with emacs, but emacs isn't exactly
   what you would call small. Can anyone help me with a pointer?

I guess it depends on what you consider small.  CLISP is relatively
small yet offers a near-complete ANSI Common Lisp.  A free-of-charge
CL library such as "nregex.lisp" can provide regular-expression
capability.

If you need something smaller, you might consider Xlisp, or a Scheme
implementation.  See the appropriate FAQs for details.
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        Lawrence G. Mayka
        AT&T Bell Laboratories
        lgm@ieain.att.com

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