[asterisk-users] LCR in Asterisk

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:52:42PM -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:45:34 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > Having programmed in about 8 different languages over the last 25
> > years, I can see both points of view.  And admittedly, I haven't tried
> > to do non-trivial things with dialplan.
> >
> > That said, my view of this interaction is that Tilghman has drunk the
> > Kool-Aid<tm>, and that Alex's view of the situation is much closer to
> > objective.
> 
> Or maybe I'm just the architect of the dialplan moving forward, which is why
> I advocate that if you really don't need to use AGI, you don't.  ;-)

I'm not sure those aren't equivalent.  :-)

> > dialplan appears to have "jes' growed", and that never makes for a good
> > language design.  Ask the Python 3 team.  :-)
> 
> I'm specifically working on removing misfeatures from the dialplan, to make
> it much easier to use and more predictable.  1.6 will be a huge improvement
> towards this goal.

"Well, this should be interesting."  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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