[Xitami] Why another scripting language?

[Francis Turner]

Fabien Royer wrote:

> I am sorry if I offend anyone by saying this but...why another 
> scripting language? I mean that there are already so many out there, 
> and some actually really great and well documented that I ask myself 
> why not embedded one of them in Xitami (my personal preference would 
> Python ;-).

I'd prefer perl if you're offering :)

> What makes GSL so special vs say...Python? 

Its a native XML aware language. And it has no overhead to deal with non 
XML things. Basically its extremely good at taking a template and 
applying it to well structured data and completely crap at everything 
else. But since about 90% of what I want to use Xitami for is taking 
structured static data and displaying it prettily as HTML its perfect 
for my needs. I use perl to do the more dynamic bits but even if I were 
to use Apahe+mod_perl+LWP+XML parsing I doubt I could get as fast a 
rendering of static data on the same (relatively low end) hardware.

> As far as I am concerned that would save you a great deal of time and 
> money and make effective use of Open Source software.

I believe GSL is open source.

The thing is that I think GSL could be used better by me. But since I 
can't fgure out how to do a coupe of things it isn't.

Francis

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