Friday, February 07, 2003

Ship the prototype http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/06/06stratdev_1.html I've written two applications recently that needed to be run on other environments. Although the weren't more than 1000 lines of code in each, they made liberal use of CPAN w/embedded persistence engine, SSL, HTML parsing/template etc. I used perl2exe to package them up, shipped a single exe to the client, and in both cases they ran like a charm on different versions of Windows. It takes a bit of skill + a 20 Meg runtime to be able to do this on Windows, and I think Java+Webstart falls in at about the same level of effort/reliability. I'm looking forward to OSAF's Chandler further validating this approach. 4:34:14 PM      comment []  trackback []

Flame War follow-up Michael Cleverly and Talli both pointed out that RMS' TCL vs lisp screed was pretty old. I should have made that more clear. I did realize that any discussion of how emacs was architected must be a bit dated. The article caught my attention because it had a nostalgic, "640K should be enough for anyone" feel to it. 4:06:16 PM      comment []  trackback []

Another random scripting link: Why you should not use TCL - RMS http://www.base.com/gordoni/web/tcl-rms.html a.k.a. "How to start a flame war". :-) Good points, though. 6:42:11 AM      comment []  trackback []

Random Advogato Link on Scripting Interesting article comparing embedded scripting architectures. GIMP's PDB sounds quite cool. 6:40:49 AM      comment []  trackback []