[exprla-devel] WorldOS 0.2 and XPL musing

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- 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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