In the early 1990s, there was a computer called the Rational 1000, which was pretty much a specialised development machine for producing code in the Ada programming language.
The "shell" language for the system was... Ada.
It was a weird choice - Ada is compiled. Ada is a strongly/strictly typed language. Ada is certainly not terse, but the IDE helped with a lot of the boilerplating. It is not what you normally think of as a scripting language.
Nonetheless, I think it was very successful. The users all knew Ada well. The command line (itself, writ... (read more)
In the early 1990s, there was a computer called the Rational 1000, which was pretty much a specialised development machine for producing code in the Ada programming language.
The "shell" language for the system was... Ada.
It was a weird choice - Ada is compiled. Ada is a strongly/strictly typed language. Ada is certainly not terse, but the IDE helped with a lot of the boilerplating. It is not what you normally think of as a scripting language.
Nonetheless, I think it was very successful. The users all knew Ada well. The command line (itself, writ... (read more)