I get a kick out the the OP saying it should be written in a real programming language like "C++". No it should be written in Assembly :) . Obviously he has never coded in C++. I made my living a few years ago writing C++ code and would rather deal with Perl any day. C++ (not C) is a mess, mainly do to the way it was put together and the many battles over standards. Did they ever get a standard defined? It also makes a lot of compromises to remain C compliant while trying to shoehorn OO into it.
Perl is actually a rather capable language, only issue with it is it does require a bit more diligence to keep the code maintainable than other languages. Mainly because it offers so many ways to do the same thing. While with C++ you can write extremely tight code and just make it hum with less resources than you can with Perl. However in order to do that you need someone with many more years of experience in C++ than you do with Perl. Now Java would be a decent compromise, however again you would have to basically start from scratch and that is huge under taking. It is open source and you are welcome to tackle it. Put together a sound plan you might be able to get a number of developers behind. As for the Core not needing to be coded in the same language the plugins are written in. Well it makes it a hell of a lot easier to provide that, otherwise you pretty much need to build in an interpreter which is not fun. Mozilla uses JavaScript because well a web browser already needs to be able to interpret JavaScript anyhow. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
