[Asterisk-Dev] Dialplan syntax changes.. Option: work on aradically different design..

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:03:23PM -0500, Steven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:19 -0400, Matthew Butt wrote:
> > Being new round here and maybe talking out of line - it's all well and
> > good having a language-based syntax with appropriate constructs - but
> > also consider that there will be many people trying to use Asterisk who
> > are NOT up to speed with such syntax.
> > 
> > I would guess that most of the Asterisk installers/maintainers out there
> > are not developers.  Don't make it harder for the majority!
> 
> A more expressive language will only make the initial hump a bit higher,
> but it will flatten the rest of the learning curve as the n+101 stuff is
> yanked out. I think the direction is a good one. 
> 

> Now the idea of embedding perl I think may not be a good idea right now.
> Specifically, I think it will not be a good idea till perl 6 is out. At
> that point, perl should be stable for a while to come and parrot may
> allow us to work in other languages when we choose to.

Not that I'm so fond of embedded languages, but perl is not the only
language capable of that task. Lua, for instance, is used in a number of
programs as a light-weight embedded interpeter.

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