On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> I vote for Python because it's easy to learn, has a natural syntax and
> it's cross-platform.
Are you sure it's enough stable? I can't run some not so old python
programs because language version incompatibilities.
> This is in contrast with Guile, which I don't think is mature enough,
> and Unix-only at this point. Also, the existing syntaxs for Guile are
> arguably hard to learn for novices, not to mention the functional
> programming. (I say this with a bleeding heart, because I love Scheme
> as a programming language.)
I'm almost sure scheme is more stable than python as a language. Moreover
there are alternatives besides guile, like siod, to adopt scheme as our
scripting language. And people would not have to install an external
library (siod is small, we could include it).
> Another serious candidate is Perl, which is more widespread than Python,
> but I fear the syntax of the language will scare people from trying to
> use it.
agreed.
> IMO Python fits this goal.
Then I don't understand why you have not written at least a test program,
so you can convince us, using the lyxserver *without* hacking lyx. ;)
Greets,
Alejandro
