10 Jun
2024
10 Jun
'24
3:36 p.m.
The architectural alternative to powershell-style extension has been around
in various guises for a while. In particular things like TCL and Lua are
engineered to be add-on extension languages. Integrating them just
involves adding a few callouts (dispatch a “program”, scan directories in a
designated “path” for programs, render internal structures into text).
This style of design has been around for a long time - all Unix shells,
EMacs, many video games.
It enables an elegant approach to performance management - build it first
as a script and only reimplement it as a binary if needed.
Doing this enables automation, but it does require the designers and
product managers to want automation.
Marc
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 4:39 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2024, Ed Bradford wrote:
[...] people who know how to write stuff in PS
are more expensive
employees, and development time for asking a simple question like
"Show me the last 5 files read in a directory tree"
Likely a one-liner in Unix :-)
-- Dave