Dear Sean,
In message d8447d79-f1d4-8a2f-39b9-a6650c936b88@gmail.com you wrote:
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And yet, this is not the field we compete in. While bourne-style shells can take advantage of a multi-threaded environment, embedded shells tend to implement a much wider set of languages. See [1] for a survey of examples.
"Embedded scripting languages" is probably not a good match for what we are discussing. I don't think this comparison was made for restricted boot loader environments, but for use in general purpose / embedded operating systems.
Hey, they even list Forth there. Maybe somebody should port OpenBoot, so we can have a Forth interpreter as new commandline language? We could implement device trees in the old, traditional way then, too :-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk