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Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 20:07
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In article <39asc9$ksc@infomatch.com>, Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> wrote:
> I thought the whole idea was to make it possible for anyone to use ANY
> language they want, which then gets translated into GEL, which then controls
> the application.

Because of eval() problems this requires at least being able to dynamically
load the required EL to avoid fork/exec overhead when reading streams of EL
code. In which case why not skip the GEL step and just specify a GEL API
that the various extension languages can provide.
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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