[FoRK] Leopard scripting

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:

> A list of environments / languages / runtimes that you think are  
> sufficient
> and concise for these would be great.

I think existence proofs serve better:

>>    * p2p file sharing framework

Well, not a "framework" per se, but an app in 15 lines of Python:

   http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/11/11_tinyp2p/

>>    * web server

This is the "hello, world" of networking apps, there's a web-server- 
in-one-page-of-code in every language.  Notable:  a bash version,  
with templates!

   http://hyperrealm.com/wtfd00d/shsp/

   http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/recipes/0057.html (rebol)

>>    * blog engine

These are also a dime-a-dozen.  Bloxsom was one of the first tiny  
wiki engines, though it's considerably larger and more feature-rich  
now...

>>    * wiki

Among others:

   http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=18 (a two-minute wiki using web.py  
--- nb. web.py says something about web frameworks!)

   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines

   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TinyWiki (Perl)

   http://bachman.infogami.com/another_simple_wiki (Python)

   http://wiki.flexion.org/YetAnotherAwkiAwki.html (bash, awk)

Etc...

>>    * IM server

I should've said "IM or chat server..."  If the web server is the  
"hello, world" of networking apps, this is a close second for that  
title.  ("Ping pong" being the "hello, world" of concurrency demos...)

   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Implement_a_chat_server (Haskell)

   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/531824  
(Python)

   http://www.hackosis.com/index.php/2007/12/01/diy-simple-chat- 
server-with-netcat/ (1 line!  ;-)

   cf. Inferno / InfernoSpaces docs, etc.

>>    * web storage server

Have seen several of these, but apparently only bookmarked this one;   
Ruby,  bigger than 100 lines, but intended as a full local  
replacement for S3:

   http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace/

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Roundup of various things:

   http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/tiny

Also, how about a "MUD engine" in 15 lines of Ruby?

   http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/mudIn15LinesOfRuby.html


>> And now, maybe?
>>
>>    * web browser

Forthcoming, maybe... ;-)

One point of my somewhat over-exuberant rant was that with high-level  
scriptable access to all of Cocoa, Mac OS X just became a lot more  
interestingly hackable (from my quick-and-dirty perspective, at  
least...) than it was previously as a stock UNIX scripting host...

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Languages mentioned / covered here:  Haskell, bash, perl, python,  
ruby, awk, rebol.

Point being, many if not most or all existing languages and their  
runtimes are sufficient to squeeze surprising functionality into very  
little code.  Most of the above aren't anywhere near "production  
ready" in any sense, but they imply something very interesting about  
code bloat...



jb


PS, I just registered tinyhacks.{com,net,org} --- if I get around to  
it perhaps I'll set up a site on which we can roundup such things...