On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:04:13AM -0700, Tom Jackson wrote: > 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
Tom, but that seems silly! Dossy's posited goal is for AOLserver to become a major cool new platform for Foo programmers, bootstrapping a whole new, large, and active AOLserver/Foo community. (If it DOESN'T generate substantial new numbers of AOLserver users, it has failed by definition.) If that suceeds, the older, currently existing AOLserver/Tcl community certainly is not fragmented. Yes, going forward, non-Tcl non-Foo programmers coming to AOLserver would have to face the question of which to use, but that seems unlikely to be a major negative. > other language. The only upside would be that we could have our own > little language war right here. "lose everything"? Why? Making AOLserver/Foo really work well would almost certainly mean building in excellent Tcl/Foo bi-directional interoperability very early on. Even a major Foo-bigot would still want that at least for bootstrapping... And in the "language war" case, at worse probably AOLsever/Foo would just fork. That seems unlikely to be disastrous for anybody, although of course anything could happen with human personalities involved. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
