It has a CGI module, which allows it to be used for CGI programs, as well as modules for accessing databases.ĬINT C and C++ Interpreter The interpreter is designed to be thread-safe, and can be embedded into other programs or systems (like a web server). It actually creates an intermediate pseudo code, which is then interpreted. It is distributed with its C source code under the GNU GPL and is extensible using dynamic load libraries (or shared libraries for Linux). This free BASIC interpreter works under Linux and Win32. My main tasks are reading files, parsing them and writing to a file. As my main Unix platform is OS X I also thought about ObjC, but I hate compiling and AppleScript is slow and has a bad syntax. I thought about Python with its just-in-time-compiler Psyco, but it makes things more complicated. Java for example is a very big package and has to be installed.

In AutoHotkey I like that I don't have to install it and that it's very small. So the scripting environment must be simple to install. It should be possible to create simple GUIs and it should also be possible to easily share scripts. I'm looking for a fast language which is also available on Mac OS X or Linux, so I don't have to learn one language for every system. I can do most of my tasks with AHK and I can do it very fast most times, but it only works on Windows. I'm looking for a fast language for scripts like parsing text files and not automating other applications. I'm not looking for an automation language like AutoHotkey. In pro (commercial) version you have even concepts like HotKeys ala AHK way. This is how Ranorex is for instance done - that is library for Pithon, C, C++, C#, and Java and you can create interface for any language. Instead, it could made its functionality as DLL and let the people use its functionality from any language, for instance Lua (only 100 kb, very powerful and fast).

There were already talks around about AHK having its own language can be seen as wrong concept. This is probably because AHK all mentioned languages are 100xpowerful then AHK and much more flexibile (automatition langs are designed for special purpose, so this is OK). I don't beleive you can find faster scripting lang then AHK. Since you touched Ruby, there are some projects going on to convert Ruby to C If you are talking about semicompilation, there are number of languagages with that approach, most notably Perl. If you are talking about exe compilation, AHK is faster as script. Some of the alternatives are PP, Ranorex, WinRunner, Phantom, AutoIt, WinBatch. AHK is automatition language, and there was already question about that class on the forum.

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