Scripting Support, Programmable triggers anyone? Options

[jay]

A common user feature request has been to adding the ability to program a trigger. You know, with if-then statements and for loops, etc.

If you had to choose a language, what would it be? Why?

[jay]

I was reading macslash.com today and there is a discussion about Ruby 1.8, a scripting language. Reading thru the threads, here's a couple of choice comments people made:

Ruby is cool (Score:0)

by Anonymous Coward  on Tuesday August 05, @01:31PM ( #45698 )

Ruby is pretty cool.  It has a nice smalltalky approach which makes it quite agreeable if you love OOD - far nicer than Perl or Python.  I still prefer Perl for scripting since CPAN has a lot more to offer than Ruby, and I generally am writing sysadmin scripts where OOD is not really needed or appropriate.  Plus Perl is still a lot faster than Ruby or Python.  But I am looking forward to seeing a wider availability of libs for Ruby's since when OOD/OOP is appropriate Ruby is a lot nicer to work with that the inconsistent mess that is Python, and Perl is even worse (though Perl 6 looks really promising).

And someone else wrote:

Ruby is cool but I prefer F-Script (Score:0)

by Anonymous Coward  on Wednesday August 06, @09:11AM ( #45776 )

Ruby is quite nice and it is cool to see it included in OS X. However, I much prefer Smalltalk (in some way, it is sad to see that Ruby is not as good as a language designed 30 years ago), and as far as OS X scripting is concerned, I recommend looking at F-Script [fscript.org], which is natively based on the Cocoa/Objective-C object model.

Any of you guys familar with Ruby and/or F-Script?

/Jay