From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21987 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2003 20:02:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21955 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2003 20:02:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout04.aul.t-online.de) (194.25.134.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2003 20:02:36 -0000 Received: from fwd01.aul.t-online.de by mailout04.aul.t-online.de with smtp id 1AVFyD-0003kn-04; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:33 +0100 Received: from debian (rxbKuQZQoeUYnHMwlFAPij-4wvLeXXyhwdjJXz8Lcf+cwPy6nulXs-@[217.3.246.127]) by fwd01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1AVFy1-1Jwqf20; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:21 +0100 Received: from pessoa by debian with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVE7T-0000C9-00; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:03:59 +0100 From: 510046470588-0001@t-online.de (klaus schilling) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16347.21647.101051.180247@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 04:50:00 -0000 To: Eric McDonald Cc: Lee Wenzbauer , xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: development languages In-Reply-To: References: <20031207173649.48164.qmail@web41807.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: pessolo@freemail.it X-Seen: false X-ID: rxbKuQZQoeUYnHMwlFAPij-4wvLeXXyhwdjJXz8Lcf+cwPy6nulXs- X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg01030.txt.bz2 Eric McDonald writes: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Lee Wenzbauer wrote: > > > tried > > modifying/writing scenarios in GDL and when they > > didn't perform as expected I went hacking through the > > ai code. IMHO if you can clean up and fortify GDL > > then it is easy to write a perl module that would let > > developers write in perl after they installed the > > module. That way you don't exclude anybody. > > Well, if you want to see all the reasons why Perl may not be a > suitable replacement for GDL, please see consult the list > archives. We had a rather toasty flamewar over this (and quite a > few other things) around the middle of November. > > If you are thinking about writing a Perl API for Xconq, then go > for it. I can think of several other people on this list who would > probably appreciate it, even though Python seemed to be a more > popular choice (though it was not always clear whether it was > being considered as an API for the Xconq engine, AI's, or a GDL > replacement). > Perl may still be useful for riting *.g files, like forging gdl tables from SQL databases via DBI/DBD Klaus Schilling