Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: S/W Installation methodology
Message-ID: <3147@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 23 Dec 88 22:52:47 GMT
References: <2048@van-bc.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <2048@van-bc.UUCP>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
> 	Well, why not? Ever try to manipulate any file data with an 'Execute'
> script? Ever try to parse user input with an 'Execute' script? If scripts are
> going to be anything more than the simplest sort of thing, a more powerful
> script language is needed. ARexx is here now with that power. Nothing else
> comes close.

Well, any of the compiled languages can do a decent job of software
installation. And Execute can be enhanced with the various PD versions of
UNIX utilities, just as the UNIX shell is. If you need an interpreter, there's
one that comes with every Amiga... AmigaBasic. Then there are things like
Forth, XLISP, Little Smalltalk, and so on. And how about MicroEmacs, another
interpreter shipped with every box...?

Not to knock REXX, but saying "nothing else comes close" is a bit excessive.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net