Cordial Mind

Apex Scripting Ascript is an easy, extensible, fast, free script interpreter. Where https://cordialmind.blogspot.com/2021/04/book-and-software-urls.html Speed BASH, busybox, C, C++, coreutils, cpio, findutils, kmod, PERL, Python, SED, systemd, util-linux are slower. Tasks Boot, shutdown, software logistics are possible. Stripped Size ELF ascript 30K! ELFSO 2M! PIC yes! PIE no!. Compile Duration 10 seconds or less is typical. Required cp, gcc, install, ld, Linux, ln, make, mkdir, nm, sed, rm Debugging Segfault locations can be reported. Script can be traced. Optional Linux-PAM; file; pcre2 if installed optional argot are compiled. Why The ascript.5 manual page when read why becomes apparent. Quality 4th generation revision quality was exceeded. Fun For the IT elite the fun noob feeling resumes. FORTRAN and CP/M are not emulated. A simple two register asm language since emulated an asm hacker similar power rush is attained. Samples...

Every now and then software from the 2010s or 2000s or 1990s is requested. The original hosts for the software project departed. The repositories disappeared. The tarballs were misplaced. Excuses excuses. It can not all be found. Sorry. But recently some ISO9660s for Sorcerer and a previously unpublished POSIX were found. Whether the Sorcerer ISO9660 images were the last rolled or sometime near is uncertain. The unpublished Pellucid POSIX can be test deployed, but the tools and software catalog were not included. And that ascript version no longer exists. All ascript versions earlier than 202001 were deprecated and discarded. The grammar is not compatible. Had illness not struck. Had more persons helped and less persons hampered. Then Pellucid POSIX would have been developed and on current ascript available and deployed. Too ill to do everything Sorcerer slipped away. Pekka Panula's hosting which lasted longer than than kublai.com, savannah, berlios.de, ...

At https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pXUmkjun5PKwQldcSRzHZU8Zo-rAb-8v?usp=sharing as google drive hosted content or at https://github.com/kyle-sallee from the git repositories master branch the ascript computer language and the books can be downloaded and viewed. From the google drive the dir content as a zip file when downloaded when extracted each file in a fixed width font terminal emulation window with 80 columns wide and 25 rows high with program less when viewed the best appearance is attained.