Re: [F-Script-talk] Porting FScript to other O.S.: some questions

[Giovanni G. <dai...@gm...>]

I think can be userful a re-implementation of FScript too.
There are plenty of language implemented in Java (jython, beanshell,
ecmascript, jruby, groovy and more recently some experiments of
Ingalls with Smalltalk).
Having a minimal implementation of FScript in Java would be a good
starting point.

We can use reflection to get seamless integration (like BeansShell
does) at least at Java Level.

A better starting point could be GNU Smalltalk o Squeak, but they
relay heavily on big startup images and this is not good for a
scripting language as I intend them.

Even Python is a good candidate in my humble opinion, because of its
huge support.

Ruby had a very small standard library and it is not suitable,
altrought it is very dinamically oriented and has unique feature.

I have seen the GNUStep site, but Windows support is lacking a lot,
and seems strong focused on Linux (even MacOSX support is
sub-optimal).

Who can be interested in such a port in your own opinion?
There are some users asking for a Fscript-like-version on Linux or Windooze?
Ciao ciao ;)


On 8/25/06, Todd Blanchard <tbl...@ma...> wrote:
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> On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
> > How can be difficult to make FScript multi-platform?
>
> About as hard has making GNUStep multiplatform.
>
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> FScript relies VERY heavily on the ObjectiveC runtime.  Without that,
> I don't think porting is a reasonable option.
>
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