Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:58 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:

> For one thing arch needs SOME embeded language. The reason is, if
> nothing else, the number of wrapper and scripts around tla that exist.

Those scripts exist more because they're experimenting with different
user interfaces (once they're deemed useful, they could be rewritten in
C and put in tla), or because they are interfacing with external
commands like cvs (which isn't something you want in the tla core).

> The kind of stuff they do is mostly glueing primitive commands, which is
> too cumbersome to do in C. 

But even if that was true, that's absolutely not an argument for
embedding a language in tla.  Rather, it would be much better to turn
libarch into a C library that doesn't abort on any error, and then put a
*real* language (more likely languages) on top of that.  Most of the
interesting development around tla will need to interface with cvs,
databases, the web, etc., and to do stuff that you really want a good
language with mature libraries.

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