[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk ael files

[Wilson Pickett]

> I don't think so. It appears to be a front-end compiler that reads the
> new AEL syntax and compiles it into the existing internal dialplan
> representation (but I could be wrong, I haven't studied the fine detail).

That sounds like what Mark said the goal of AEL was. It is just
another way to declare the same intensions in a dialplan with no
runtime penalty, but using a language that is a little more structured
(meaning it looks like c). The resulting dialplan is stored exactly
the same way.

Quoting JerJer, "it's another way to write spaghetti coede that no one
else will be able to understand."

I think they're both right :)