On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Lawson English <lengli...@cox.net> wrote: >> > There's more to a language then just the syntax. CLR-based Smalltalk is > NOT real smalltalk, for example. > > There's no way except perhaps via F# to get something approaching > smalltalk programming out of a CLR-based system. >
Well Morgaine's socket based idea could over come this very easily. If the API was exposed via a socket, LL could provide a plugin loader much as they do for the MediaAPI now, if they want, this pluginloader could be CLR based and the default LL implementation of plugins could be mono assemblies. So the plugin loader could be directly used by any language that can produce CLR binaries. If someone else comes along who does not use CLR, they could just directly use the socket API with what ever lanuaguage they wanted either directly, or via another plugin loader, but importantly, in their lanugage of choice. Sandboxing could easily be provided by the default LL pluginloader so that out of the box implementation provides a save environment for any downloaded scripts. But someone else who wants to call native functions can from, again, any thing they like if it supports sockets. I think something along these lines could provide something close to maximum flexibilty. Regards Robin _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
