On 2012.5.13 11:06 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The only other instance I can think of is... damn I can't remember the name.
>> It's the one that makes URLs like /foo/bar/123,3598,235.html. You write in
>> Java and everything, even the templates, is stored in Oracle.
>
> Vignette StoryServer?
YES! Oh god, the horror.
> I had a bit of a go with that... back when the language was Tcl, not Java.
It's all coming back to me now. It was TCL 7. Oh god, it didn't even have a
bytecode compiler! There was no debugger! You had to type everything into a
special Java editor (back when Java worked even less) that you couldn't paste
into!
> I remember one developer who decided he had had enough of trying to do
> something in Tcl and wrote a template that was effectively
>
> [exec perl -e {
> .... about 150 lines of Perl snipped ...
> }]
>
> (or whatever the syntax for calling external commands was). Worked
> wonderfully.
HAHA! Oh god I wish I'd thought of that. Amongst the reasons I was fired
from my first job was my refusal to touch StoryServer ever again.
>> If you think you need that, step away from the keyboard, take a nice walk
>> outside and rethink your design. Or write out open + eval long hand.
>
> Or do "filename"?
That preserves lexical encapsulation.
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