Re: [Flightgear-devel] A FGPythonSys implementation: The embedded Python interpreter as a FlightGear subsystem.

[Curtis O. <cur...@fl...>]

Let me comment on this using an analogy.  If FlightGear is a sandbox on the
playground, how do we dictate which toys are allowed in?  If we debate this
on purely technical merits, then the argument will literally go on forever
in the same sense of Mac vs. PC or iphone vs. android.  If we look at it
from the standpoint of what toys do people wish to bring into the sandbox
to play with, then some of these technical arguments and demanding answers
to one's personal level of satisfaction seem a little silly.  Prove your
truck can haul more sand than the one we already have?  Prove your shovel
and bucket are better than mine?  Do you like yours only because it's red
plastic and not yellow?

>From my perspective, the important question is if a toy is dangerous.  Is
someone trying to bring something truly harmful into the sandbox?

Curt.



On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM AJ MacLeod <aj-...@ad...>
wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:03:28 +0200
> Thorsten Renk wrote:
>
> > So what are we really trying to solve:
> > Is Nasal somehow conceptually flawed, limited, not secure enough, i.e.
> are
> > we trying to overcome a genuine limitation?
> > Do we have genuine use cases of libs which are not coded and would take
> > too long to code in Nasal?
>
> (And several other very good points)
>
> This is all excellent sense which I would agree wholeheartedly with.
> Nasal has to be about the most straightforward scripting language I've ever
> had to deal with (including python, which I'd used before Nasal.)
>
> The fact that it's not really used outside of FG is completely irrelevant
> - the syntax is completely straightforward, there are thousands of example
> scripts to draw on and even if there are comparatively fewer people who are
> "experts" in it, every one of these virtually without exception will be
> knowledgeable about its use within FG.  What use are a hundred thousand
> Python experts if they don't understand your problem?
>
> As others have already said, there are already many ways of interacting
> with the property tree with other languages; does anyone truly think that
> extending the actual core of FG in python is a good idea in any way?
>
> AJ
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