[Asterisk-Dev] Wish List / Brain Storm from AstriCon

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:36, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:55:56 +0200, Holger Schurig
> <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
> > Based on this thinking we would still write code in old BASIC:
> > 
> > 10 FOR I = 1 TO 10
> > 20 PRINT "HELLO"
> > 30 NEXT I
> > 
> > But somehow we have now languages without line numbers and we love them
> > all.
> 
> I agree, but the trouble is that people are very religious about their
> choice of language and I guess Mark is concerned about not letting the
> all too often occuring religious fights over languages be carried into
> Asterisk. We are all old enough to realise already that no matter what
> language you were to implement for dialplan scripting, there will
> always be some folks who want it different. You can't really be
> everything to everybody. I think Mark is doing the right thing trying
> to avoid this.
> 
> Having said that, I'd like to emphasise that I am not saying we
> shouldn't aim to get something better. However, I don't think the
> solution is to modify the existing scripting engine.
> 
> Let that whachamacallit? BASTIC ?! stay as it is, perhaps a few minor
> improvements here and there, but basically leave it alone.

So basically we need to look at building Parrot into asterisk so that
all the language plugins and lower level bytcode is already done. It
would allow us a quick route to implementing the dialplan in a language
truely suited to the task... BrainF#ck.....
 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>