I'm on Waddinghams side here. "Do as <other language>" is integrated with the
"alternateLanguages". If something isn't in the alternateLanguages, it does not
belong into "do as <other language>". So what you'd probably need to convince
him (and me) of, is to find a reliable way to get available languages into the
"alternateLanguages", and then make the execution of the language work with
"do" after that.
So the real linux-related problems are therefore:
1. Is there any os-suplied way to query available scripting languages
(excluding random executables that do not belong)? For example, simply dumping
$path into alternateLanguages is probably too broad and unreliable.
2. Is there a way to run scripting languages without going trough a shell-like
wrapper (because mark has said he wants it to work the same as on other
platforms)?
In the end, wouldn't your goal be easier achieved with a modified shell()
function that allows to pass fields as if they're files (for multi-line
scripts)?
On 17.09.2013, at 22:22, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richard-
>
> Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10:51:44 AM, you wrote:
>
>> In the meantime, what could we do with "do...as..." that we can't do by
>> calling Python/Perl/etc. from the command line via shell?
>
> To avoid repeating myself, see my last comment in the forum thread.
> The tl;dr: probably nothing, especially for one-liners, but it gets
> progressively more complex once you start executing longer scripts.
> And I still think there's a cognitive difference between
>
> do tScript as "perl"
> and
> get shell("perl" && tScript)
>
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