This has been a pretty wide ranging discussion, now I'm starting to wonder a 
little bit, maybe worry a little bit.

There seems to be at least one misconception about the product AOLserver, 
which should be put to rest:

That is about language choice and the ability of introducing new scripting 
languages into AOLserver. 

AOLserver is a Tcl application, like Expect. That means that the C code uses 
Tcl C APIs extensively, for nearly everything. Where the Tcl C APIs fail, 
they have been supplemented with extensions in C, parts of which have been 
exposed to the Tcl C and Tcl scripting APIs. 

Adding another language would be on average more difficult than starting from 
scratch because you would have to rewrite the entire application, and somehow 
try to shoehorn the conventions of another language into the AOLserver/Tcl 
conventions. In addition, most languages were not designed to be used like 
Tcl for this purpose.

However if we could snap our collective fingers and have a multi-language 
AOLserver tomorrow it would instantly be a huge minus. Because it isn't clear 
how you would get two scripting languages to work togeather, you would have 
to choose which one you want to use. You would lose everything written in the 
other language. The only upside would be that we could have our own little 
language war right here.

tom jackson


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