Re: Admin tools - idea from left field
David Welton wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:18:23PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote:
>
> > The only problem is which language to choose as the basis? Certainly
> > Perl is ubiquitous, but I wonder if Guile might not be a better
> > choice...
>
> I would want the core language to be in a shared object - for now, if
> I'm not mistaken, that rules out Perl and Python. Guile doesn't play
> nice with C, in its present incarnation, because of its garbage
> collection. Tcl, IMO, is great at this sort of thing - it's small,
> light, simple, and was designed from the ground up to work well with
> C. As far as the language is concerned, no, it's not great, and I
> would rather use Python. Python also has the advantage that you can
> more easily do data structure kinds of things without just resorting
> to hash tables... (well, internally, they are hashes, but that's not
> what the user sees).
I'd like to mention another possibility. The ngs-js JavaScript
interpreter can be (and in Debian is) built as a shared lib (libjs0 in
Debian). It's definitly worth loking into. (I'm going to be using it
as an extension language in a mailer/newsreader I'm working on right
now.)
> Anyway, this situation my change by the time I actually get around to
> doing anything.. I just was curious to hear other people out on the
> basic idea.
Sounds like a good thing to work towards.
Brian
Reply to: