Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Scripting on Linux
Author: Wesley Felter Posted: 5/17/1999; 9:42:01 PM Topic: Scripting on Linux Msg #: 6388 (In response to 6364) Prev/Next: 6387 / 6389
Netscape includes a CORBA ORB, but AFAIK it is only to allow Java applets to call back to stuff on a server. So it's only a CORBA client. (I'd love to be proven wrong!)I'd like to echo Dave's sentiment: I don't want a toolkit that I can use to build a solution, I just want the solution.
Unix has traditionally had a very strong scripting culture; unfortunately the Unix definition of scripting is usually "passing arguments to programs when they start". You can use many small programs that evaluate their arguments, read some data on standard in, process it, and write the result to standard out. However, it just isn't possible to build GUI programs that way; GUI programs have to be long-running. Unix doesn't really have a coherent story for scripting long-running programs.
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