| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 16:09:46 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga python |
Quoting Rudi Chiarito <rudi@amiga.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:38:43AM -0400, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> > Unless SHEEP turns out to be some extraordinarily integrated yet
> > amazingly simple to learn solution, adapting more broadly supported
> > Inter Process // CGI languages makes more sense than to me than
> > starting over (especially with freely distributable engines like
> > Python, Perl and Rebol).
>
> You're free to port and/or use them. There are already first attempts at
> Python and Rebol. Perl shouldn't be that difficult to port, either. The
> system, for one, will use SHEEP extensively (think of Startup-Sequence
> and User-Startup, for example).
:-/ So you are replacing the non-standard shell with a non-standard
scripting language ? Since I know of the nightmares that come from
such decisions (in the end, there will either be a startup sequence
which uses a different scripting language than anything else on the
system or people will have different scripting languages thus it will be
impossible to exchange startup sequences), may I suggest that you think
very hard about the possible implications of such a step ? Of course,
no matter how hard you think and how much effort you put into this to
come up with the best solution, it will always be the wrong decision
:-)
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