On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:13:38PM +0200, Juan Jos? del R?o (Simple Option) wrote: > Suggestions? Ok, here I go... > > I was going to suggest adding support for another language apart from > TCL... be it Mono. That'd give support for languages such as C#, VB, > Python, and faster performance. > > ... am I too crazy? :)
Crazy, no. But I think the onus will be on you to actually add full support for whatever this other not-Tcl not-C language is that you're interested in. AFAIK, doing so is feasible, but so far, everyone interested in such support seems to have hacked at it for a while, and then lost interest and quit. See also: http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/Languages Languages people have done that level of work for seem to include at least: Python, Standard ML, Objective Caml, Scheme, Ruby, and Perl. Vlad Seryakov wrote the OCaml module and apparently was using it for something real. The guys who did the ML support wrote up a nice paper on their use of AOLserver years ago, but I don't know if they've really used it much since then. Ah, probably not, as they apparently moved to Apache in Feb. 2007. I don't think the guy who was adding it ever actually used the Python support much, and the Scheme and Perl modules were definitely very early alpha development only. Probably the same for Ruby. People out there are probably using AOLservers Java and PHP modules for real, but more for integration with other existing code and libraries, NOT so much for new web development per se with AOLserver. If you want to add C# support, well, no one is stopping you... -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
