[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Daniel James]

Colin Walters wrote:
> The only other actual example of where you think Furth would be useful
> in tla that I've gleaned from this thread is "project-specific" rules.
> My answer to that is: "exec".  You have yet to rebut that.

For me, the answer is portability. I would want an archive to be usable 
on any platform, using only tla (or whatever client). This means an 
embedded language. Eventually there will be a windows client which 
doesn't require cygwin.

If you decide that using your archive requires perl/python/sh, then I 
hope you'll be able to just run it from the embedded language. You might 
even be able to write a script which causes all hooks, or whatever, to 
search for the scripts. In which case, you're only going to require 1 
standard script in the embedded language. So you'll only need to learn 
to write the config files, which should be no harder than the existing ones.

Personally, I would consider Lua ideal. But I don't have much experience 
with Scheme, so I'm keeping an open mind.

Daniel