Converting Python

[Björnke von Gierke]

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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