Episode 801 transcript

FLOSS-801 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week Jeff joins me and we talk with Max Anderson about JBang. It's a little utility to make Java easier to use and run it as a scripting language if you really want to. It's a lot of fun, you don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 801, recorded Wednesday, September 17th. It's not your parents Java anymore. It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. And today, it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting. It's going to be Java. Which That's okay. We mostly like Java here. It is not just me. Of course I have, I have Mr. Jeff Massey, the one, the only Mr. The, the other, Mr. Lennox here with us to talk about J Bang, which is an interesting project all about, from what I could tell, it's using Java as a system scripting language, which is sort of interesting. What, what do you know about this, Jeff? Jeff: Not a lot. When you, when you first got a hold of me, I thought for a moment you were talking about JavaScript. Well, it sort of Jonathan: is. It's Java space script. Jeff: Yes, not one word. So that's where, I was a little confused at fir…