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From: jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Q: is there a small lisp-like scripting language?
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 07:18:39 GMT
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My suggestion is to use scsh--the scheme shell--which is being written
as part of the scheme underground project.  If you ask on the scheme
newsgroup for a pointer to the source, you should be able to find it.

The author has just finished an awk-like extension which will probably
be merged into the next release.


In <ABEL.94Dec14131017@wisdom.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il> abel@wisdom.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il (Belikoff Alexander) writes:

>In article <17084A51FS85.UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> UPP201@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Michael Burschik) writes:

>   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?

>   Cheers,
>	   Mike.


>You can try XLISP - a small D. Betz's interpreter. However it's a standalone
>program so you should modify it a bit to use as a library.

>See also Lisp and Scheme FAQ. There may be some pointers on small Lisp or
>Scheme implementations as a scripting tools.

>--
>abel

>--
>Alexander L. Belikoff	            |      ...
>(abel@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)        |      signal(SIG_CTHULHU_CAME, arise);
>                                    |      pause();
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