[asterisk-users] extensions.conf vs. AEL

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <200710040813.28610.tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>,
Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:07:47 Barzilai Spinak wrote:
> > All this discussion is pointless. As pointless as the discussion of
> > assembly versus high-level languages decades ago.
> 
> As one of the main architects, I don't find this discussion pointless.  My
> personal opinion of AEL is that it's coming along nicely, but it's still not
> up to the point where I would consider using it for most dialplans.  That day
> will come, and I'm working with Steve Murphy to ensure that it does.  One
> thing that you did not see in the language wars of yesteryear was of the
> assembly language changing in subtle ways, to make development in the
> higher level language easier or more consistent, as is the case with AEL and
> extensions.conf.

I just got the 2nd edition Asterisk book from O'Reilly, and was surprised
to find nothing in there about AEL, except a mention of extensions.ael on
page 471.

Cheers
Tony
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