At 15:04 18.02.02 +0100, you wrote: >On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:18:41AM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > Is this still up-to-date? > >Fairly. > > > Or are there plans to do anything using the Lyx-Server? If not, I'd > glad to > > implement parts of the > > the scripting capabilities into Lyx. > > > > Furhter, I would propose to use Python as scripting language. > >I think the discussion on what will become LyX's favourite scripting >language is still postponed. But you could certainly start collecting >a list pro's and con's of python.
Some help might be (from the Python home page, so read it with care): http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/#jccpprtTR http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/005/005.html#Others and (less serious) http://www.python.org/doc/Humor.html#vowels ;) I like (and prefer) Python because it's a very clean OOP language and the code is much more readable than Perl code :). Further, it has a lot of integrated data types >This would be even more valuable if you >had some direct comparison with the other candidates (Tcl & Perl were >'nominated' among others IIRC)
