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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language
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Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:43:39 -0400 |
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:29, David Brown wrote:
> As nice as it sounds, it is a bad idea. You'll end up with the same
> problem that vim has. Vim can use Python, Perl, Ruby and possibly
> others.
vim is different in that these extensions are not generally used for
*automating* vim in some fashion and building higher-level applications
on top of it; rather they are external commands that the user can
trigger.
I mean, it doesn't make much sense to try to extend tla in that
fashion. You already have a good way to run extensions for tla: via
your shell. Just name your script tla-do-foo, and poof, it's an
extension. There's no obvious significant gain to pushing a
distinguished programming language into tla just so you can say "tla
do-foo".
> Since there is no standard language to extend it in,
> extensions don't get used very often. It is much better to pick a
> language, and integrate it well.
That's probably true for an editor. But a library (which is what
libarch is) should be accessible from many different languages.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, David Brown, 2003/10/16
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