[Mono-list] Scripting the Linux OS with Mono

[Abe Gillespie]

That sounds pretty cool.   Even just using the command line
interpreter as a stepping stone might be useful.  I assume that part
is OSS as well?

-Abe

On 11/10/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Abe Gillespie wrote:
> > I was wondering if there's any easy way to run C# scripts in Mono.
> > I'm fairly new to Linux (just at about a year) and I'd like to avoid
> > learning yet another language (Perl, sh, etc.).  Has anyone written a
> > .Net program that takes a file as input and runs that code?  Perhaps
> > Mono can do this natively?  How cool would it be to have startup
> > scripts written in C#?!
>
> If you're not attached to C# specifically, you might want to check out
> Boo. It's a Python-inspired language for the CLR (so all the familiar
> class library is available to you), and should be rather more
> appropriate for lightweight scripting.
>
> It includes an interactive interpreter which should work for scripts as
> well.
>
> http://boo.codehaus.org/
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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