A good scripting language (was: jCVS command-line interface?)

["Tomas Fasth" <tomas@euronetics.se>]

>I have contemplated one many times, along with a scripting
>language that could be imbedded into jCVS, but I have never
>had the time to get it done.

I happen to like very much an object oriented scripting language called
Python (http://www.python.org). It has (IMO) an easy and clean syntax. There
have been a recent release of a Python interpreter called jPython
(http://www.python.org/jpython) fully implemented in Java. Maybe something
to concider to embed in jCVS? An particularly nice feature is full access to
Java class libraries. Performance is an issue of course, I mean, an
interpreter written in Java, there has to be some penalty for that. But for
controlling and extending purposes I think it would work just fine.
See also: http://www.developer.com/journal/techfocus/081798_jpython.html

Comments?

Tomas