Re: a seriously naughty thought...

>>>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:21:47 -0400, "Andrews, Martin" <[email protected]> said:

    Andrews,> Will, Funny you should mention this. I had just embarked on
    Andrews,> writing my macro-language for cfengine as pure python (sorry
    Andrews,> ark). I think this is an excellent solution - who needs yet
    Andrews,> another language syntax? And there is lots of documentation
    Andrews,> on the python syntax. I used to do similar things in Tcl all
    Andrews,> the time (Tcl is better at making up extended languages than
    Andrews,> python as it lets you create new control structures - but
    Andrews,> Tcl gets messy as your program gets large). Going this route
    Andrews,> means you are married to the chosen implementation language
    Andrews,> - but it does save a lot of effort.

Do you mean PCFengine ? :-)

http://www.lit.enstb.org/~keryell/projets/PCFengine/expose/2002-09-12/

I've had this idea last year and I have a student working on it.

Anybody interested by joining the effort ? Could be interesting to discuss
at LISA for example.
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