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Fault Tolerant Shell

Posted by michael on from the does-it-correct-typos? dept.

Paul Howe writes "Roaming around my school's computer science webserver I ran across what struck me as a great (and very prescient) idea: a fault tolerant scripting language. This makes a lot of sense when programming in environments that are almost fundamentally unstable i.e. distributed systems etc. I'm not sure how active this project is, but its clear that this is an idea whose time has come. Fault Tolerant Shell."

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  1. Python already has that by xlurker · · Score: 5, Informative
    here you go autocompletion in the editor is availible in vim here
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  2. One of the few who get it apparently. by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is indeed little more then the wrapper that you describe. Yet most seem to comment on its non-claimed properties of fixing the programmers errors. Wich it really really doesn't. In fact it is worse since this one would happily keep trying to execute a command like "rm -Rf / home/me/tmp".

    I have often had to write such wrappers myself. Sure even easier/better would have been if somebody added this to say BASH as an extension but perhaps that is not possible.

    How often have you needed to write horrible bash code just to pull data from an unreliable source and ended up either with a script that worked totally blind "command && command && command &&" wich never reported if it failed for days on end or ended up with several pages just to catch all the damn network errors that could occur.

    I will definitly be giving this little language a try in the near future. Just another tool for the smart sys-admin. (smart people write as little code as possible. Let others work for you)

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  3. If you want a fault tolerant scripting language by WetCat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Erlang (http://www.erlang.org) has it.
    You can have multiple linked interpreters and
    even fault-tolerant database!
    It is a scripting language.
    From the FAQ:
    1.1. In a nutshell, what is Erlang?
    Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. The most popular implementation of Erlang is available as open source from the open source erlang site.