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Idle

Idle is a simple but powerful scripting language, in much the same vein as the venerable Perl or Python languages. It is, however, a much more lightweight application. (And Idle code is certainly more readable than Perl source code;-).)

At the core of Idle sits a tweaked version of Lua. This language kernel is enhanced by an extensive collection of runtime libraries, almost all of which are squeezed into a single DLL (with a size of roundabout 200kb) plus a few supporting Idle modules.

More details, the full documentation and of course downloads of the current pre-alpha release can be found on the Idle website. (Sorry, the current release is Windows only. It may run with Wine, however.)

As time goes by, I will release a few utilities I have written in Idle. The first of these, docmd, is already online. It's a small program that can search for files and/or directories across drives and directories (such a search can be based on quite complex selection criteria) and perform whatever action you want on the files or directories found.

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$updated from: Idle.htxt Fri 25 Apr 2008 16:35:24 thomasl$