From: Norman Palardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:27:28 -0600
On Sep 02, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Basically ( no pun intended ) any way that RS can entice
programmers away from programming in C++, Fortran, Java etc has to
be a
good thing.
In order to entice developers away from those other languages REAL
has to have comparable language features and then something extra.
I'd say RAD is the "extra". But additional language features may be
needed as well.
Fortran offers numerical libraries
Java has portability, class introspection and serialization and
several other items
C++ has the ability to interface to just about anything you can throw
at it, inline code, etc
I'd love to see REAL steal the best from each of these
And perl has a scripting system that isn't unnecessarily crippled.
RB could so easily give full access to classes and functions, just
like perl does. RS give this strange argument that people could write
scripts to erase your file system, but don't perl users have the same
problem???
Really this is just the kid-gloves attitude that is ruining the
Western world. People take away all the fun because one moron did
something bad with it, ignoring the fact that many more people do bad
things in other places. Good examples would be the insanity that is
going on in airport security today, or that teachers can't put a band-
aid on a kid without getting parental admission. No one seems to ban
cars though despite that they are more dangerous than all the other
things put together, real sanity there...
An easy solution to make everyone happy, would just be to allow the
RBScript to specify which classes/functions are allowed access to.
You could set it to none by default, and give a handy name for all
classes/functions, like "*".
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