> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers
> > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded
> > scripting language is from your perspective?
> >
> > Several options that were raised (and I rememeber) include Icon,
> > Lisp, Scheme and Python.
I have a question on this (and I do not work with any of these
languages, so I cannot be accused of being unfair!!):
Before choosing a language that will affect our (happy) LyX lives,
what requirements are really being made on this language? I
mean, what do we really need? If we can decide what kinds of
things are necessary, we can choose the language best supporting
these capabilities... does anyone can give a few details of the
capabilities that the LyX Behavioral Language should have? Do
we need (easy) string capabilities? Environment descriptions?
Macro expansions like TeX? Other things I do not even dream about?
Other question: what about enlarging (if necessary) the language
already used in the minibuffer? It would be nice to have the same
language being used twice.
j. b.
