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Originally Posted by aditya3098
a simple 3d modeling tool for the kindle?
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The whole point is to show that you can do a lot more than people think with whatever tools you have available.
You are only limited by your imagination.
Shell scripts are used in kindle debricking and jailbreaks (RUNME.sh), and for beginners who may not know what to type at a command line, shell scripts can provide a GUI.
Shell scripts do not need a native compiler, or a cross compiler. Although we could have used lua or awk, those are not installed on many embedded devices, but they all have /bin/sh.
And despite multiple claims on the net that you cannot process binary files with sh, you can see from my scripts that you can. I read binary event data in touchpaint, and I output binary data to the framebuffer in the other scripts.
An additional thing is that I show how to do math functions using shell scripts.
Of course, these programs can be translated to C for more speed, but /bin/sh makes a fine "language" for quick prototyping.