On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > Since I'm assuming we are not going to ask users to write stuff in RPN, then > > you would need some client language to write the rules in and then compile > > into > > your language? > > Well actually I was thinking that someone might, say, write, say, a > Freenet discussion forum client which people could use, and then only > the author of the client would need to know about Sesil - I certainly > don't expect the general public to learn or understand Sesil!
While I still don't believe that discussion forums will work (see my earlier post which you did not respond to), I don't think that specialized clients for everysingle ruleset sounds good at all. If the current "everything on the web" thing (started by Hotmail) tells us anything it is that people do not like to download specialized clients. Anyways, by general public I mean the general public that I give a damn about (ie the Linux/geek computer literrate general public who can write their own shell scripts). > > You compare it to java bytecode, so I also guess you want to use byte > > commands? > > No, there are only 3 datatypes, Number (represented as a Java double), > String, and Boolean. I meant, do you want a human readable code or easily machine readable. In other words, is check signature CHECK_SIGNATURE() or 0x4A? If you want to use a language that most users won't want to write for manually anyways, I would suggest the latter as we want to make things as easy for the nodes as possible, and not waste bandwidth. > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
