Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:31:30 -0000

> My first preference for a suitable language would be Lua since the licensing
> is suitable (MIT) and there is a glue layer available for running it on
> vxWorks which allows Lua scripts to call functions found through the vxWorks
> symbol table.  It should be relatively easy to extend Lua to run registered
> iocsh commands as well.

Hi, Andrew.

I'd be fine with Lua, but someone has to do the work.

I have another idea: What if I changed the syntax of my proposed if-statement feature to match that of Lua?  It would be way more restrictive than Lua, and I would likely have to chop some things out of it, but Lua would be a superset such that if someone did do the work to switch to Lua at a later time, existing scripts using my proposed if-statement would continue to work in Lua.  Would that make this branch merge more likely?

Thanks,

Lewis
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System