[gephex-devel] GePhex 0.5: why guile?

[Martin Bayer]

Hi JS,

> But I guess we all start to see the limitations and implications of that
> approach. But if the core is programmed in C++ anyway, why the need for
> a scripting layer?

Scheme is a good base for domain specific languages. And we need a dsl
that describes the structure of complex dataflow systems. The generated
dataflow graphs are just simple scheme data structures and can be the
building blocks from new more complex graphs. With a script language it
is simple to write complex test cases like: Generate random filter
chains  with 5-20 filters...

Martin
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