[asterisk-users] Best Scripting Language

[Hans Witvliet]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 13:27 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:27:20PM +0530, Gopalakrishnan A.N wrote:
> >Can anyone suggest which is the best scripting language for Asterisk or any
> >telecom device?
> 
> Depends on the other parameters. Perl is great for rapid development,
> but I wouldn't run it per-call on a box taking hundreds of calls per
> second. (Ditto Ruby and Python.) C will be much faster, but it's more
> effort to write and debug.
> 
You can develop in perl (great language, sort of swiss-armyknife under
computer languages, around for many years)

And if you are satisfied with the result, you can translate it into
binary, thus having the best of both (if not any) worlds.

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