Sorry for typo in SWIG. Valeriy ----- Original Message ----- From: Valeriy Onuchin To: 'Brett Viren' Cc: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [ROOT] root as extension language Brett Viren wrote: >Do you actually need all of the ROOT features or are you just looking >for an extension language? > >If your goal is to *just* provide an extension language, frankly, I >wouldn't consider ROOT/CINT. If you need to use, specifically, C++ as >the extention language or you need object I/O, histograms, drawing, >and all the good stuff ROOT provides then ROOT/CINT is an okay choice, >but if you simply want to provide users a way to write scripts for >your main compiled app I'd suggest using SWIG (www.swig.org) to >generate the necessary wrappers for whatever your favorite interpreted >language is (Scheme, Perl, Python, etc). Hi Brett, I saw many times why (Scheme, Perl, Python, etc). should be used instead of using interpreted C/C++, e.g. ".. but C++'s strict typing, pointers, memory managment etc. simply doesn't lend itself very to a scenario where an end user wants to control his app with simple commands at a high abstraction level without a degree in CS." The opposite argument is => if you want simplicity, do not use C++ in full range, use C which is "as simple as possible language". If you do not need ROOT's "object I/O, histograms, drawing" => do not load/(compile against) these libraries. Thank you for interesting link about SWING, but "in the Carrot context (http://carrot.cern.ch)" I'm currently thinking about "anti-SWIING" solution, i.e. possibility to create converter of PHP (http://www.php.net), Perl,Python scripts into C/C++ scrtipts, possiblity to reuse exisitng PHP(Perl etc.) modules in ROOT enviroment. If you/somebody have/has ideas about how to do it in better way or know about existing software which allows to do it => please, let me know. Thanks. Regards. Valeriy
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