Dear Sean, In message <d8447d79-f1d4-8a2f-39b9-a6650c936...@gmail.com> you wrote: > ... > And yet, this is not the field we compete in. While bourne-style shells > can take advantage of a multi-threaded environment, embedded shells tend > to implement a much wider set of languages. See [1] for a survey of > examples. > > [1] https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages
"Embedded scripting languages" is probably not a good match for what we are discussing. I don't think this comparison was made for restricted boot loader environments, but for use in general purpose / embedded operating systems. Hey, they even list Forth there. Maybe somebody should port OpenBoot, so we can have a Forth interpreter as new commandline language? We could implement device trees in the old, traditional way then, too :-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de There are bugs and then there are bugs. And then there are bugs. - Karl Lehenbauer