[GRASS-dev] question about scripting platforms

I’m writing a paper that includes a discussion of GRASS scripting that we’re using to develop a suite of landscape evolution models. For that vast audience who are MS Windows users, I was going to say that BASH shell scripting is similar in a number of ways to using *.bat scripting in Windows. This got me to wondering if it is possible to create a GRASS script using a *.bat file for wingrass? I was also going to mention the option of using a high-level scripting language like Python, and again wonder if it is theoretically possible to also use Visual Basic to script in GRASS.

Could *.bat files and VB be used with GRASS or are there technical obstacles to doing so?

Michael


Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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