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Script language that provides Unix system programming?
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Does anyone know of a C like scripting language that provides support for Unix system programming (for example dealing with memory maps)? Also it must be easily embeddable and/or extendable using C.
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If you''re doing low-level stuff like memory mapping, you may well not be working with a scripting language. To do stuff like that efficiently requires static typing, which few scripting languages use.
Check out Perl, Tcl, and Python, in that order; they''re the most likely suspects for OS-level features like this.
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
Check out Perl, Tcl, and Python, in that order; they''re the most likely suspects for OS-level features like this.
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
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Yeah I figured that this probably wouldn''t suit scripting languages but I thought it might be useful for prototyping and fast creation of tools.
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Thanks
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I''m specifically talking about things like memory maps, and not just file handling etc...
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Cheers
You could just use C/C++ and export to a .so (.dll in win32). Along these lines see the article featured here on gamedev "Scripting C using Co-Routines".
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Dustin
Python has an mmap module, that lets you work with memory mapped files. Perl probably has something similar.
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