On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:48:39PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: Russ> I hate to say this, but C *is* pretty portable, and you can
: Russ> probably assume that all maintainers who use autoconf have a C
: Russ> compiler available. I suppose that the sort of string
: Russ> manipulation that autoconf wants to do is pretty much a
: Russ> non-starter in C?
:
: Really, no, not C. We want a scripting language, we want easy support
: for regexp, we want to split lines of text, to pipe, to system, etc.
We would of course have to implement a slimline special-purpose scripting
language if we went for a C implementation...
Another scripting language that hasn't been mentioned is Tcl. I've
done enough Tcl programming to know it's not what I would want, but it
has it's nice features too (Tk being the best one).
Lars J
