built-in scripting languages

[Andreas Kostyrka]

* "Andra?? 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie at mages.ath.cx> [070122 22:52]:
> On 10:12:00 pm 2007-01-22 Corey <corey at bitworthy.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 14:03, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> > > Dnia poniedzia??ek, 22 stycznia 2007 21:45, Corey napisa??:
> > >  
> > > > I would recommend lua, it's extremely light-weight ( we're talking
> > > > about 6 megs here )
> > >  
> > > 6M???  
> > >
> > > http://openzaurus.linuxtogo.org/feed-browser/?name=lua&action=search
> > > show that it will take much less then 1M
> > >
> 
> Why is this even being discused... you have the ability to add anything to
> the phone once you get your hands on it... SO any scripting languages one
> desires can be added.
> 
> Personaly by default there should be none. And let the user decide what he
> wants. For example I prefer ruby over perl, lua or python and I like using
> bash scripts for a lot of stuff. So having lua on my system would be more
> or less pointless as I don't use it myself.
> 
> IMHO default install should have the really minimal setup needed to run and
> not one app extra.

The problem here is, that it might be useful to have a "standard"
language so that the standard apps can use it for embedded scripting.

Andreas