Re:Perl 11
by kazinator on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:58PM
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Whenever I need to write a tiny script that tests the bounds of what is easily done with just awk and Bourne shell, the tool that I next reach for nowadays is TXR or TXR Lisp.
I made it myself.
One of the conscious goals of TXR is to have a scripting language in the POSIX environment (without forgetting about MS Windows too) that is acceptable for people who would rather be coding in Lisp. (Speaking of awk: TXR has it: it's a Lisp macro.)
TXR saves coders from Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Lua and whatever else.
TXR has no ecosystem or libraries; everything comes with the program. If it's not described in the manual, it doesn't exist; stop looking and write it yourself.
I made it myself.
One of the conscious goals of TXR is to have a scripting language in the POSIX environment (without forgetting about MS Windows too) that is acceptable for people who would rather be coding in Lisp. (Speaking of awk: TXR has it: it's a Lisp macro.)
TXR saves coders from Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Lua and whatever else.
TXR has no ecosystem or libraries; everything comes with the program. If it's not described in the manual, it doesn't exist; stop looking and write it yourself.
This kind of thing is forbidden in the TXR project: https://xkcd.com/1987/