On 26 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] told this: > From: "Nix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On 20 Nov 2006, Giampaolo Tomassoni spake thusly: >> >>>> That's not even mentioning the metaprogramming and higher-order >>>> programming techniques that we use extensively in SpamAssassin -- those >>>> are basically *just not possible* in C/C++. ;) >>> >>> Ops. What's this stuff? Let me know. >> eval and all that it implies. Compiling and executing code at runtime. >> Calling functions by name. That sort of thing. >> Of course you *can* do it in C/C++. The traditional method is to write >> an interpreter or JIT-compiler for another language and do whatever-it- >> is in that other language. > > Of course, you can do that from fast C/C++ code using exec() or a perhaps > better a spamc/spamd trick to call these fancy perl facilities. But that's > cheating, isn't it?
Yeah, you could chatter with perl over a pipe, or just embed perl. Or just, y'know, use perl :) > Language wars get boring, ya know. Never! Rewrite SpamAssassin in Objective Caml, Curry, and Cayenne now! It'll be so much more efficient afterwards, and the hair our users lose trying to install the myriad loony interpreters will *help* them in the long run! -- `The main high-level difference between Emacs and (say) UNIX, Windows, or BeOS... is that Emacs boots quicker.' --- PdS
