Lee Jenkins wrote: > Yehavi Bourvine +972-8-9489444 wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I see that most people are using the extensions.conf syntax (most of the >> examples and questions here use that syntax). recently I've translated all my >> dial plan to AEL syntax and I find it much easier, especially when you need >> IFs. >> >> Why most people don't use it? Am I missing something? >> >> > > I just think its the default so probably many new people to Asterisk > start there and then possibly move over to AEL or AGI scripts later on > as needs become more complex... For those that have been in the > Asterisk community for a longer period of time, the traditional "flat > line" script was all that was available until AEL came along as far as I > know. > > I wrote an automated dialplan generator so much of *our* systems had the > traditional flat script because its much easier to produce that > traditional asterisk script from a GUI that generates script for you. > > I prefer pascal syntax personally, so we use a pascal based AGI/FastAGI > engine that I wrote for much of our more advanced logic. > > In the end, it probably comes down to preference and need, I would > think. Nice to be proficient in writing it all; flat scripts, AEL, > AGI/FastAGI/Manager API (using your programming/script language of > prefernce)....this way we can have more tools to solve more problems for > our customers or company. > > > > --- > Warm Regards, > > Lee > Let us not forget that AEL cannot be stored in a database therefore rendering you unable to utilize realtime.
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