On Wednesday 10 April 2002 17:55, Ronald Florence wrote: > Matej Cepl writes: > > One more reason for Python support in LyX. > > Hear, hear!!! (frenetic applause) > > No thank you. Some of us are too old to learn yet another minor > programming language. I'm sure python, like tcl or icon (from the > University of Arizona), has its strong points, just as sh/ksh/csh have > their strong points -- but python, tcl, and icon remain fringe > programming languages with tiny user and library bases. If LyX is to > have a language for user extensions and modifications, I'd rather see > a traditional and powerful language like elisp, which has proved so > versatile in emacs/xemacs and would allow so much of the xemacs/emacs > extensions to be easily ported to LyX. Or perhaps the developers > could borrow from Apache mod_perl and allow users to code extensions > in perl.
I'd say perl, given the massive user base and the wide availability of existing modules. OK, it's not the most aesthetic language around (generally looks like a spider's been tap-dancing on my punctuation keys) but it's familiar and well-suited to operations on text. Robin
