[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[Benny Amorsen]

Ira <ira at extrasensory.com> writes:

> Well, I'd be happy if they came up with an elegant language with 
> functions, parameters and proper variable scoping while getting rid 
> of line numbers and all the rest of the baggage that shouldn't have 
> been there in the first place. AEL is an attempt to solve some of 
> that, but as it's just a precompiler to the underlying language it 
> has limitations that shouldn't be there.

I could not agree more strongly.

The big question is what such a language should look like. The SIP
Express Router language is not the solution either, it is way too low
level and tied to SIP. Then there is Freeswitch, which seems a bit
better -- unfortunately the XML makes it hard to read.

Perhaps the best idea would be to use an existing programming
language. I just have a hard time imagining how it could be made easy
to read.


/Benny