Ganesan Rajagopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> These days if I had to choose an extension language, I'd probably choose >>> python or Lua. However, changing the extension language midship is not >>> a good idea for Gnucash. Post G2, perhaps Gnucash core should gradually >>> become 100% C with a well defined API for writing extensions in a >>> language of your choice (take a look at Gnumeric for example). > >> That's not an extension language. An extension language needs to be >> interpreted, not dynamically loaded in that way. python would do. > > I don't understand. What's not an extension language? I also didn't > understand the part about needs to be interpreted and not dynamically > loaded.
Pluggable modules that you have to compile are not what an extension language is for, and are not a replacement for extension languages. >> Python is, however, a crappy language. > > Not for me, and I dare say, not for a whole lot of people, especially when > compared with guile/scheme. Whether it's crappy has nothing to do with popularity. Visual Basic seems to be very popular, but that doesn't make it good. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
