Re: best approach for scripting on Intel Mac OS X?

["Ken Smith" <kgsmith@...>]

On 12/26/06, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> On 12/26/06, Ken Smith <kgsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I actually did try using lposix and lfs.  Ex looks similar enough that
> > I didn't bother with it as well.  Python was simpy the better tool for
> > the job.  It happened that I needed to compute SHA-1 sums and Python
> > had a module for it.  The Python implementation ended up being faster,
> > probably owing to os.walk() being faster than explicit iteration with
> > the methods provided by lposix and lfs.  The native SHA-1 support was
> > also certainly better than doing a popen to sha1sum.  Although I find
> > Lua to be a fantastic language, I must say that it has not usurped the
> > other tools in my toolkit just yet.
> >
>
>      That's why I push ex: Because a growing user base is the kind of
> pressure that can make it get better and more comprehensive. Some
> early courageous adopters are needed!

Noted :)  It would be excellent to see these three efforts congeal
into one but I believe that has already been wished for on this list
at least once before.  I like the idea of lposix but I find its strict
adherence to the spec somewhat limiting at times.  I like Ex's
approach for sleep() better than lposix'.  (With Ex, you can sleep a
fractional number of seconds whereas with lposix, you must sleep for
integral numbers of seconds.)  I do plan to check out Ex but I frankly
it is unfortunate that the development energy is not focused.

 Ken