On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:30:32AM +1030, Bas Scheffers wrote: > Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] is it necessary
> Tcl seems to be the only language that is thread safe and can be > embedded in the way it is in AOLserver. Lua should definitely work. Indeed, Lua is supposed to be even easier to embed than Tcl. It basically came to exist because back in 1993, its creators wanted a dynamically typed language that was small, simple, cross platform, and readily embeddable, but they didn't care for Tcl. There are also some nice-sounding thread-safe Javascript implementations out there, which should be embeddable. Dossy was enthusiastic about those a while back, and started on "nsjsapi". Lua also has cool stuff like LuaJIT, and it should be straightforward to build Tcl-like "apartment model" (aka, lightweight process) threading and inter-thread communications. Hm, I remember talking about this before; yeah back in April 2008: http://groups.google.com/group/aolserver/msg/13fec53483ddfb0c Check out the rest of that old thread too; a bunch of people had useful stuff to say about adding new programming languages to AOLserver, some of its history, and related matters. -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
