Perl thread safety has never been properly debugged. In fact, that
was the reason I moved from Perl to Tcl many years back. I had
assumed that Python had fixed the global semaphore thing from when I
looked at it 8 years ago, but no.
Ok, Dossy, I buy your argument that the other pop languages aren't
going to perform better because of their thread safety issues.
Your server-side javascript argument is *very* interesting. It could
potentially make AJAX programming quite a bit easier and there are
some excellent debugging tools for Javascript.
One thing I really miss in the Aolserver/Tcl world is a good debugger
-- "puts" isn't such a good alternative :D. Javascript, I believe,
has nice development environments and debuggers available. It'd also
be nice to have a wider world of source code available to us, as Tcl
has a lot, but nothing compared to the Perl/PHP world.
IMHO, this change could put AOLserver back in the beauty pageant.
As always, I welcome any comments or criticisms or flaming of my
half-baked off-the-cuff email-to-the-whole-list ideas I presented
here.
I know there's plenty of them ... :-)
I think you nailed it. It's the obvious solution, a very strong
direction for aolserver to go.
-john
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