Re: On the merits of implementing a script running application

Sounds like a fun project, but maybe not very useful. I nearly wrote a shell-style scripting language for Krang but perrin managed to talk me out of it before I could get started. He pointed out, correctly, that it wouldn't offer much utility over the existing OO API. My vague hope that our sys-admins would write their own data-manipulation scripts wasn't actually very likely.

Who are the intended users of your tool?

-sam

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Re^2: On the merits of implementing a script running application by BaldManTom (Friar) on Apr 03, 2008 at 17:44 UTC
Hi samtregar, Sounds like a fun project, but maybe not very useful. Who are the intended users of your tool? I'm gathering that it may not be terribly useful. It's been a learning experience for me, though so it's not a total loss. As for my intended users, mostly our testing staff, though I wouldn't complain if our dev staff found it useful, too. None of them know Perl at this point (we're a Java/Jython shop) but I have a feeling that it'd be easier to provide them with sufficient examples and a few Perl books in the long run. It would also likely reduce the amount of errors introduced by my own poor coding...	[reply]

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Re^2: On the merits of implementing a script running application
by BaldManTom (Friar) on Apr 03, 2008 at 17:44 UTC

Hi samtregar,

Sounds like a fun project, but maybe not very useful.

Who are the intended users of your tool?

I'm gathering that it may not be terribly useful. It's been a learning experience for me, though so it's not a total loss. As for my intended users, mostly our testing staff, though I wouldn't complain if our dev staff found it useful, too. None of them know Perl at this point (we're a Java/Jython shop) but I have a feeling that it'd be easier to provide them with sufficient examples and a few Perl books in the long run. It would also likely reduce the amount of errors introduced by my own poor coding...

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