"Hecl" - scripting for erlang

[David N. Welton]

Hi,

I've put together a simple command language interpreter for Erlang.  My 
plan is to use it with yaws, but I think it might be useful for other 
things as well.  For instance, you could add some simple scripting 
capabilities to an application to let end users write simple commands 
for it, giving users more or less commands, as you see fit.

It is Tcl-like in nature, meaning that it does string interpolation and 
makes it easy to print things out, whatever their type.

It is complementary to, and subordinate to Erlang. It's meant as a 
library that you could add to your app to do some simple work (it's 
pretty slow).

For the moment, I have placed it at 
http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/files/hecl.tgz although if people were 
interested, I suppose I could add it to jungerl.

I'm sure it's quite evident that I haven't been programming seriously in 
Erlang for too long, so constructive criticism is appreciated (although 
it might be nice to keep any really embarassing mistakes in private mail:-)

It's not finished either, there are still some big things to fix with 
it, but I thought I'd let it loose to see if anyone else would like to 
have a look.

-- 
David N. Welton
davidw@REDACTED