... print -u5 exec 3<&p

read -ru3 line print -r "$line" read -ru3 line print -r "$line" float r a=1 b=1.5 c=-1... (( r*sqrt(b*b-4*a*c) )) print r1=$(( (-b+r)/2 )) r2=$(( (-b-r)/2 )) integer even=0 odd=0 ... for ((count=0; count < 100; count++)) do if ((RANDOM%2=0)) then even=even+1 else odd=odd+1 fi done print even=$even odd=$odd TIMEOUT=10 select i in list edit quit do case $i in list) cat "$foo";; edit) ${EDITOR-vi} "$foo";; quit) break;; "") print ... esac ...

Outch. That seems like an awful syntax, very bash-like and extremely low-level. You'd expect something higher level for a scientific genius to use. Especially since it never takes more than a handful of keystrokes to reprogram entire subsystems.

Oh well, it's not like SG/SGA plots try to be logical very often.

Almost totally unrelated it would be fun to have a language where the reserved keywords are ortva raq vs gura ryfr sbe rnpu va pnfr fryrpg juvyr hagvy qb qbar. Another option would be to force Latin declinations when using verbs for method names in call statements :-) Sorry about that. I had too much fun with Intercal when I was younger and it obviously had some consequences.

The development cycle was not too bad:

I'd estimate there was about a 1 to 5 ratio here: 1 hour to implement the real functionality (it's really low tech) and 5 hours to polish the chrome around it and deliver, the whole thing split over 3 days. And another day lost trying to make it available.

Speaking of bloat, the resulting executable is 168 KB, the MSI installer file is 337 KB and according to the task manager the application uses 12 MB when running yet its VM size is 7 MB. For comparison, an empty .Net WinForm application (the default WinApp created by the C# wizard in VS.Net 2k3) generates a 16 KB executable that uses 8 MB of memory and 6 MB of VM when running.

Obviously having a kitchen sink run under the hood has a price in terms of memory usage, not to mention the hefty 20 MB initial download (which I painfully forgot to load on my secondary vmware dev box :-( ).