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Re: [MiNT] MILO - was fatal error handling



On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Guido Flohr wrote:

> I think TCL is overkill for such a simple task.  I would prefer either
> to rehack Thomas' automore (if this is what we need) or to maybe
> start another one with a very simple shell language.  I think
> the Andrew shell is quite a good starting point.  It's small,
> it's free, it's stable and if we throw away all unnecessary
> code (job control, pipes) we almost have what we need.

Well TCL isn't actually that terribly large, and that particular program
would exit anyway after running the script. The reason I like TCL is that
it's widly used (ie. widly supported) and very easy to expand.

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