From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihuxx!ignatz
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Shell compiler
Article-I.D.: ihuxx.221
Posted: Fri Oct 29 18:56:04 1982
Received: Sat Oct 30 03:14:18 1982

	I've got this little idea that won't go away.  Have you ever, for some
reason or another, written a shellscript that ran away?  Instead of 10 or
20 lines, it ended up 250?  It may really do what you want, but *ghod*, is it
slow, and a drain on the system? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to feed it to
a program, and have that program generate a 'C' source file to do the same
thing?

	Has anyone done this?  I've really looked at the problem, and there's a
reasonable amount of work involved if the thing is to be much more than a
compiled set of "system" calls.  Please reply directly to me...

				Thnx in advnc,

				Dave Ihnat
				ihuxx!ignatz