On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:59:48PM +0000, John Buckman wrote: > And if aolserver had serious javascript, I'd probably learn > javascript and put a lot of my own time into making it work right.
In your particular case, why? What's your motivation there? > I'm not (currently) a Javascript programmer but I thought Dossy's > proposal to make Javascript a 1st-class language in Aolserver was by > far the most bang-for-the-buck, and most likely to restart interest > in aolserver. Or Lua, or Erlang, those would both be interesting. But yeah, I suppose there'd be much more mainstream demand for JavaScript. Note, I suspect that refactoring AOLserver code for more flexible use by tclsh would be complementary, not antagonistic, to more complete support for other programming languages. If I was a hard-core aficionado of some other suitable high-level programming language, and yet was also interested in using AOLserver, direct language support would of course be more immediately critical, but ideally I'd want to see both. Also, nicely re-factored libraries of code might be enough to help convince me to add the specific support for my favorite language MYSELF. Btw, the way Distel turns Emacs into a stand-alone Erlang-compatible process sounds pretty cool. If you can do that to Emacs, clearly you could do it to AOLserver too, if you actually needed to for some reason. (I can't think of a good use case offhand, but then I'm not an Erlang programmer either.) http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/distel/ http://code.google.com/p/distel/ http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070719.html -- 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.
