Ariel Rios writes:
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again:
> >
> > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be
> > restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it.
> Why?
> > Here's a few quotes from the web in support of that theory
> > (found by searching for "scheme learning curve"):
> I don't see why quoting some web posts can be a good reason.
OK, here's the canonical reply to "why do we use scheme".
The "core" developers (dave_p, rlb, grib etc.) all either love, or are
at least comfortable with scheme. It works very nicely for our
purposes. We've written a whole lot of code in it, and it's not going
to go away. I personally dislike Perl, and while I'm not the arbiter
of such things, I would be extremely wary of any new Perl code going into
the main gnucash tree. In fact, it's pretty unlikely that code in
languages other than C and Scheme will be added to the main tree in
the forseeable future.
As far as providing a perl interface for user scripts, maintaining one
scripting language binding is hard enough. Maintaining a bunch of
them is too difficult (and if anyone mentions SWIG's guile support
we'll scream) and we have other priorities.
There are two main alternatives, I suppose, if you want perl support.
One is to work on getting/keeping the SWIG perl bindings up to
date - there have been others who have shown interest in doing so, a
quick check of the archives should reveal their email address.
The second is to get g-wrap to support perl. Of course, g-wrap
is written in scheme, and people who know scheme aren't really all
that fussed about writing their scripts in scheme :-)
Look, we realize that a lot of people are put off by scheme, but it
really is a nice language once you get over the parentheses hurdle
(and a good editor works wonders for that).
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