--- In xpl-dev@y..., Lucas Gonze <lucas@g...> wrote:
WorldOS 0.2 is now out. see www.worldos.org. The main changes have
to do
with usability - it should be much easier to create and plug in
applications.
The usability improvements are partly a result of having a primitive
scripting language which we use for the config files. In practice
this
language is just a series of standard wOS messages. Messages look
like:
<msg>
<protocol><function>name of some func</function></protocol>
<funcdata>func args go here</funcdata>
</msg>
See http://www.worldos.org/worldos/rel02.php3#config_files for more
details, or download the distribution and look at conf/*.xml.
This brings me to XPL and my reasons for following the progress of the
group.
First, I want a real scripting language for wOS, where you can set
variables and do scoped operations.
Second, I want programs to float from node to node as easily as data
does.
(like mp3 files in Gnutella) If the XPL interpreter is java, then we
can
easily embed it into wOS. This would allow XPL progs to become the
standard macro language.
If this all seems kind of blue-sky, I hope it will provide at least
one clear usecase for XPL.
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