Re[2]: [stellation-res] Proposed Changes in Bugzilla (#31581 )

[Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Note: I exclude Javascript or, pardon me, ECMAscript, from the category of
>> scripting languages. I worked with it, briefly, and would far rather use
> VB
>> if only those two were available (not saying much!). I'm still a Python
>> newbie, but my limited experience with it has been very positive. It would
>> be interesting to hear other suggestions; please consider ease-of-learning
>> as well as expressive power and support for domain-specific vocabularies.

Out of curiousity, what don't you like about JavaScript?

>>
>> - Jim
>>
> Do you know if there is a plugin that would allow Python to be used inside
> Eclipse? While I have never used Python myself I have heard good things
> about it. Maybe I have just not encountered a good one. BTW are you aware
> that the Eclipse folks tried to add a scripting facility to Eclipse and then
> backed off as they could not get a satisfactory result apparently. The first
> cut code is in the CVS repository.

> With regards to a scripting language, I suspect that there might be a
> substantial job in building a bridge between the language and the Stellation
> objects to be manipulated.

With a JS-based environment, this might be handled by creating a DOM based on
the Stellation objects...  And mozilla has a java-based JS implementation
(Rhino: http//www.mozilla.org/rhino).

I'm not trying to push for JavaScript, I'm just mentioning the
JavaScript-related posibilties. :-)



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