(breaking my code of silence)
well, if you use gimp as an example, scheme, python, perl. . .
others?
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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: Embedded Scripting Language
What are the other GNOME applications using for scripting? Is there
some sort of emerging standard there? I would be nice to have a
script which could manipulate several applications.
-Erik
> 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.
>
-Erik
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