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From: bobo@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov (Mark Friedman)
Subject: Re: Requirements of Extension Languages (Re: What language would you use?)
In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of 7 Nov 1994 02:37:13 GMT
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In article <39k3sq$f51@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen
<tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

   :-> In comp.lang.perl, davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu writes:

   :In article <39irtb$3t4@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU>, Tom Christiansen
   :<tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

   : : 1)  Regular Expressions Test
   : [...]
   : : 2)  Sorting Test
   : [...]
   : : 3)  System Test
   : [...]
   : 
   :I fail to understand what these test have to do with an extension
   :language.  They are tests more suited to an interpreter that has
   :been designed with the purpose of perfoming system administration
   :tasks, e.g., perl.

   I'm not convinced that only sysadmins need regexps or sorting.  I'm sure
   the other languages will do ok at all these tests, probably in line with the
   original rankings.

These are tests of specific functions that I would hope would be in
some sort of library and possibly written in some language other than
the extension language. In fact, one of the tests of an extension
language ought to be the ease at which you can integrate such
libraries.

-Mark
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