At 09:33 AM 2/13/2008, you wrote: >In the same way that a PHP programmer should not attempt write Python the >way she writes PHP, I would agree with you. However, if you're willing to >adapt to the ways the dialplan works, you can create dialplans which aren't >obfuscated at all. Tcl and Lisp are close cousins to the dialplan in terms of >how they do things. Not everybody is a Lisp programmer, and some people >absolutely detest it. That doesn't make it any less of a good language.
Look, I've done lots of cool stuff in the dial plan and other have done stuff way beyond me, but I defy you to call the dial plan language good or well designed. It works, it gets the job done but it's always harder than it needs to be. Ira _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
