[asterisk-users] LCR in Asterisk

[Ira]

At 09:33 AM 2/13/2008, you wrote:
>In the same way that a PHP programmer should not attempt write Python the
>way she writes PHP, I would agree with you.  However, if you're willing to
>adapt to the ways the dialplan works, you can create dialplans which aren't
>obfuscated at all.  Tcl and Lisp are close cousins to the dialplan in terms of
>how they do things.  Not everybody is a Lisp programmer, and some people
>absolutely detest it.  That doesn't make it any less of a good language.

Look, I've done lots of cool stuff in the dial plan and other have 
done stuff way beyond me, but I defy you to call the dial plan 
language good or well designed. It works, it gets the job done but 
it's always harder than it needs to be.

Ira