It's not yet obvious to me that sheer language power is
required, because the uses to which the language will be put aren't
yet in focus. I repeat, is it going to be used for relatively simple
macros, or for plug-in applications that need to crunch relatively
complex data structures? If the former, than language expressiveness
is irrelevant; all you need is to write things like forward_words(5) ;
insert_text('Hi!'). It's also not hard to generate such code
sequences by recording actions or in a wizard of some sort.
Let's make this concrete. Can someone make a list of two or
three things that would be done using the scripting language?
>*and* power. Python is sort of powerful, but also is pretty unknown (the
>O'Reilly book is the only one I know about on the language).
We're hackers, and are supposed to make decisions on technical
merit, not popularity; on popularity alone, we'd all be using
Windows. :) And on ease-of-use for inexperienced programmers,
Javascript or Python are clear wins over Tcl and Perl, because they're
simpler.
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