Re: Perl embedding: trial balloon
>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen
<abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Per> John Tobey <jtobey(a)channel1.com> writes:
> Sure, I suppose you could implement a major mode as a separate
Perl
> process, but who really wants to invent protocols for such things?
> Not to mention ways to serialize and deserialize interesting data
> structures.
Per> It would be _way_ simpler, incomparable more robust, incredible more
Per> maintainable, and infinitely more useful[1] to have Perl as a
Per> subprocess. And both Perl and Emacs Lisp are really good at
Per> serializing data structures.
Per> However, I have to admit that Emacs as a loadable Perl module, or Perl
Per> as a loadable Emacs module, has a much higher hack-value. Kids today
Per> don't appreciate the power of the Unix pipe any more.
Per> The third option, creating a single Perl+Emacs executable, is simply
Per> to ugly to consider.
CORBA? (I can hear Hrvoje moan. Hi Hrvoje ...)
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