On Mon 12 Dec 2005 19:33, Justin Tunney wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:50:54 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The purpose of scripting is to enable someone non-technical to alter > > logic at run-time. > > > > Basic is a crap language, but it is a perfect scripting language cause > > even my mother are familiar with it. As a programmer I absolutly hate > > the language, but I respect the fact that other less technicall can > > program in VB and VBA alike scripts. > > > > TCL is very cryptic and due to that not suited as a scripting language. > > TCL may seem a bit cryptic at first because it's not C-like; however, the > language was designed to be as simple to learn as possible. After all, > the whole language can be described in just 12 rules. > > As for making things simple for the lay-man, using BASIC instead of TCL > isn't going to make much of a difference. Simplicity comes from > consistent, well designed software. If you designed a cryptic API for > BASIC that took 10 lines to dial, whereas the TCL API took only 1 line, > which is simpler? Furthermore, a good source of examples and > documentations such as voip-info is probably the most essential thing for > helping users.
I personally don't have anything against TCL for what its worth. I taught myself enough TCL in half a day to pretty much do everything I needed to do on a cisco. I think its probably a good choice as it was designed exactly for this job and it leverages the existing skillset of cisco (and other) telecom engineers. Just my 2cents worth -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
