Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple scripting languages (was: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX)
Message-ID: <4138@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 Aug 89 12:38:17 GMT
References: <1746@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <1989Aug27.034146.27086@agate.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <1989Aug27.034146.27086@agate.uucp>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
> I swear, some people think Unix semantics are the solution to all
> problems, even if these are problems that don't exist on Unix. Gad..

I swear, some people are more interested in shooting down an idea instead
of trying to solve a problem. All scripting languages worth their salt
have some sort of comment syntax. So, make some unique pattern that can be
used to identify a script language, and allow it anywhere in the first couple
of lines of the script (in the first couple of lines to allow for programs
that use a seperate line to indicate a comment pseudo-op, or need some magic
on line 1):

-----
/* $$SCRIPT(RX $*) */
-----
.key whatever
; $$SCRIPT(EXECUTE $*)
-----
# $$SCRIPT(BAWK -F: $*)
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%{
/* $$SCRIPT(INSTANT-LEX $* S:MAIN.C)
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