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A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps]
- sevensor 8y ago(1996) [ps] A case for "little languages" embedded in scheme rather than written in C.
- __sdegutis 8y agoIt's a bit strange that this is a .ps file, which Chrome didn't natively turn into a PDF for me. So I converted it to a PDF and hosted it at https://sdegutis.com/ll.pdf https://sdegutis.com/ll.pdf for anyone's convenience.
- jandrese 8y agoIt's from 1996--back when PDF was proprietary and non Windows support was inconsistent.
- exikyut 8y agoI'm only vaguely aware of the de-proprietary-ization of PDF; I remember at some point the market was flooded with print-to-PDF software, and commentary that this was happening because of something had somehow changed. What happened?
- jandrese 8y agoAdobe made the file format open source to spur adoption. It worked. Make no mistake, there were a good number of PDFs floating around before that point. It was pretty much immediately popular, but they were kind of a hassle for everybody not running Windows. There were programs to display them like xpdf, but they weren't bug compatible and lived in a legal grey area. Everything got a lot better once Adobe released the rights on the format.
- agumonkey 8y agoAlso I think there's a mailing list devoted to little-languages..
- brlewis 8y agoI'm curious if scsh still builds. https://github.com/scheme/scsh https://github.com/scheme/scsh
- mario-goulart 8y agoScsh's process notation has been ported to CHICKEN as an egg: https://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/scsh-process https://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/scsh-process
- lboasso 8y agoor as pragmatic alternative "Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language" [0]. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...
- 3rdAccount 8y agoDoesn't seem to work right now.