Multiple prog. language support

[Sandip Bhattacharya <nospam@thanx>]

Has anyone thought of a way to make the ePerl pass more language 
independent? I mean that some people might find it useful to choose the 
scripting language of their choice for the third pass. This would be 
possible if there is a clean interface and a consistent specification 
for this pass, so that others could plug in - say a python,php,ruby or 
even shell script embedded scripting engine instead of the present perl.

Please note, I have anothing against Perl as such. Perl is a wonderful 
language. But currently, only people with a knowledge of perl can put in 
a lot of logic when necessary.

Personally, I have a working knowledge of Perl, so I am not facing a lot 
of problems. But I encounter a lot of resistance when I try to push wml 
to non-perl-aware site maintainers.

Perl is possibly one of the fastest interpreters. But since all the work 
in wml is offline, performance is not much of an issue, is it?

Thanks,
  Sandip

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