[asterisk-users] Sort of OT: PBX vs CO

[John Hughes]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 05:20:38PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>>>       
>>>>    It might be possible to glue something together with it and OpenSER and
>>>> a media gateway control protocol like H.248 and a few of these SS7-IP
>>>> appliances, but it would have all the ragtag qualities of Napoleon's army
>>>> routed in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century.
>>>>         
>>> A class-5 switch is something I always wanted to program...
>>>       
>>    You're certainly not the only one who has some enthusiasm for that.
>> But using all this "soft," high-level stuff to do it would be quite a 
>> chore, and the result very half-assed.  At least, at this point in its
>> evolution.
>>     
>
> Oh, I was actually thinking of Forth.  :-)
>   
When I programmed switches it was in PO CORAL.  These days I'd expect 
you to be doing it in ERLANG.