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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 10:27:31 +0100
From: Ian Stirling <0000358B8083.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Wanted: small meta-data language
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In comp.lang.awk Scott <none@nospam.com> wrote:
: Have you considered something like JavaScript (ECMA Script). The language
: itself is pretty easy, and it shouldn't be that hard to implement from
: scratch if needed be. That shouldn't be necessary though as both Netscape
: and Microsoft have released source for it (I don't know if MS is still doing
: that though).
<snip>
: Matthew Moss wrote in message <6mee5pINNhc0@tim.risc.sps.mot.com>...
:>
:>I'm hoping someone can help identify an existing language that fills
:>my needs. I've posted to the .awk and .icon groups as well, since my
:>needs are similar (and maybe a match) to those languages, but I am
:>unsure of how well they would work on binary data chunks.
I assume you've looked at the palmpilot software archive, Lots of languages
have been ported.
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