Does anyone know of a C like scripting language that provides support for Unix system programming (for example dealing with memory maps)? Also it must be easily embeddable and/or extendable using C. Thanks

If you''re doing low-level stuff like memory mapping, you may well not be working with a scripting language. To do stuff like that efficiently requires static typing, which few scripting languages use.

Check out Perl, Tcl, and Python, in that order; they''re the most likely suspects for OS-level features like this.

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

Yeah I figured that this probably wouldn''t suit scripting languages but I thought it might be useful for prototyping and fast creation of tools.

Thanks

I''m specifically talking about things like memory maps, and not just file handling etc...

Cheers

You could just use C/C++ and export to a .so (.dll in win32). Along these lines see the article featured here on gamedev "Scripting C using Co-Routines".

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Python has an mmap module, that lets you work with memory mapped files. Perl probably has something similar.

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