Re: Embedded Scripting Language

[James Henstridge]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Victor Kirk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just to add my comments to the scripting language debate:
> 
> If I could choose an embedded scripting language for Dia it would have to be 
>Guile/Scheme.  Besides the fact that I have really started to like Lisp and derived 
>languages (and it makes a change from C++/Java which i use 95% of the time), it is 
>because it is used in other applications that I use reguarly.

Note that this isn't a debate about which scripting language to use
exclusively.  The Python plugin (unfinished) is just another plugin for
dia.  It is dynamically loaded at runtime, and none of the dia core has
"#ifdef PYTHON" lines or anything like that.  I assume that other
extension languages could be handled just as easily.  In fact, you could
probably load multiple extension languages at once.

James.