Robin Cornelius wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ >
Sure. ANd in that case, I have no real objections. There's durned little difference between having a command parser written in C#, C++, or whatever and if one can use CLR scripts directly but still be able to evoke the internals of the system via a socket interface, that's fine. Personally, if I ever wrote a Mac-only client, I'd use fscript as the internal scripting language because that is far, FAR slicker than anything CLR-based, but I'm a Mac fanboi. Lawson _______________________________________________ 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
