Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jeremy Sanders (jeremy(a)jeremysanders.net) said:
> Something like Lua would be very good. The overheads over C would be
> minimal, and it would have the advantage of being editable.
>
> I've had to edit an init script to get something working properly many
> times.
If you're going to want them to be editable to pass the
lowest-common-denominator test of whatever admins might be editing them, I
think bash is probably the only reasonable choice.
Perhaps, though C is completely non editable to many sysadmins and lacks
easy to use builtin routines helpful in scripting (maps, lists, tuples,
string manipulation).
At least a simple Lua script should be comprehensible to the average
sysadmin in case they need to debug or trace something, even if they never
write anything.
Jeremy
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