Re: infobot mailing lists

[Jonathan H. <vha...@ru...>]

> >Is Perl the way the bot should go?  Is it the best choice?  Why?  Is
> >specific choice of language a good way to go?  In today's multi-lingua
> >world, should we stick to one language, or have a source-independent
> >API, communicating with RPC or PB or SOAP?
> 
> One way NOT to go is C# or any other single-platform language/language
> variant.  So that pretty much limits you to Perl, Java, C and C++.

I was heading towards Python with my question ;-)

Python is platform independent, wonderfully structured, easy to code in,
and has lots of beautiful modules that make stuff easy.

And Python/Twisted (http://www.twistedmatrix.com/) makes programming
network applications ridiculously simple.
See:
  http://www.twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/howto/clients

Just a thought.

> As for RPC, PB and SOAP, those are more of a hindrance than an advantage.

Again, Perspective Broker has all the advantages and none of the
disadvantages.  I just think it might be useful for different bots to
communicate with each other and share modules.  But that's waaaay in the
future.

Baby steps, right?