[asterisk-users] extensions.conf vs. AEL

[Steve Murphy]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:17 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> 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.

From what I heard, they had it on the list, but the deadline came up,
and it wasn't ready, so....   There'll probably be a whole chapter on
AEL in the next edition....

Maybe they'll make it (the AEL chapter) available a little early? (hint,
hint!)

murf

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