Re: Lightweight IPC for scripting

Daniel Barlow writes:

> As many people by now have the misfortune to know, one of my pet rants
> about Unix as a desktop OS is the lack of decent support for scripting
> applications.  Some apps do CORBA, some apps listen on sockets, some
[...]
> None of them have seen pervasive uptake, which makes me feel better
> about inventing yet another.  sexp-ipc (working name, which needs

All I can say right now is: very nice idea.


> 2) It uses READ, which is OK I suppose, but it really should specify a
>    more restrictive language than "whatever cl:read accepts": for
>    example, are authors of C implementations going to want to write a
>    reader for rational numbers, or complex numbers, or whatever?
[...]
> I should probably write at least a Perl version at some point, if not
> a C one.

There are at least a couple of sexp reading C libraries, and possibly
also a Java one, but I don't have my list of bookmarks handy. From
their documentation you may get an idea of the supported data types.


Paolo
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