[linux-audio-dev] libcui - design-question

Simon Jenkins sjenkins at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Sep 23 11:54:07 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:04 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:
> [Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]
> 
> >>breathe deeply. think of snakes. say "python".
> >
> >Are you serious? Do you know python? I hope not...
> >
> >I don`t want to start a flame-war over programming languages,
> >but I know both scheme and python very well, and would
> >never consider python as an extension language again.
> 
> Would you care to back up this judgment by a few facts?
> 
> One has to consider that a scripting extension for an application like 
> ardour, with an intended audience of little to no programming 
> knowledge, will have to be as painless and intuitive to learn and use 
> as possible and still provide power and freedom of expression to the 
> savvy.
> 
> I know of no language that fits this bill better than python. 
> 
Lua perhaps?
http://www.lua.org/

There's a somewhat Lua-oriented comparison here:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaVersusPython

And (balance!) a somewhat Python-oriented comparison starts here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2003-December/026847.html

Simon





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