mk_language_shell.pl vs create_language.pl

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

At 9/18/2010 09:42 PM, James E Keenan wrote:

>So my feeling is:  Though interactive configuration seems to be prima facie newbie-friendly, it's actually of value only to masters of the program being configured.   And the effort we put into maintaining interactive programs doesn't really pass a cost/benefit test.  There *should* be ways of getting people started on Parrot relatively quickly.  I just don't think interactive programs are one of them.

I understand your point about configuring Parrot itself. But wouldn't the questions for creating an HLL shell be primarily about the HLL? An HLL developer presumably knows how to answer these. And if 99% of the users would take 99% of the defaults 99% of the time, then forget both the interactive mode and the command options and simply generate a standard shell.

~~ Paul


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