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Re: Embedded language support in LPub
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:51:42 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Wayne Gramlich writes:
> By far the best extensiblity solution is language neutral.
> With this strategy, you add some code to LPub to allow it
> to be accessed via a TCP/IP connection. For example, you
> would add the "-s <port>" option ot LPub to cause it to
> go into server mode listening on <port>.
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> Everybody else would access LPub via the bi-directional
> bytes stream interface provided by a TCP/IP stream. For
> most scripting languages, opening a connection to a port
> on the local machines is a few lines of code. After that
> each program would talk to the LPub server via a *simple*
> protocol that you define.
Yeah, but don't define yet another new protocol. Go with
a simple protocol that already exists like XML-RPC.
http://www.xmlrpc.org/spec
They don't much simpler than that. Plus if you look at the
implementations page you'll see that tcl, perl, java, and just
about everything else are already supported.
http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations
What could be better than that?
Don
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| (...) Don: No matter what stategy is taken, there needs to be a documentation effort to describe what features of LPub are going to be provided for extensibility. This is true irrespective of whether a particular scripting language is selected (e.g. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Embedded language support in LPub
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| (...) Kevin: Before you choose between Tcl and Perl, you might want to broaden your focus a little. Neither Tcl nor Perl are particularly good extensibility languages, even though Tcl was ostensibly designed as an extensibility language. My first (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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