[evla-sw-discuss] Notes from Scripting Walk-through Meeting

[Kevin Ryan]

On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 22:33 America/Denver, Tim Cornwell wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Rich that the observe scripts should be data only and
>>>> in a standardized markup language format such as XML - simplifying
>>>> things for the user.
>
> I don't agree with this - once you have loops and conditionals, XML 
> starts
> to look very unwieldy and poorly matched to the task at hand. Even the 
> ALMA
> team, who are very keen on XML, use a scripting language for control. 
> The
> ALMA folks have thought about the issue of the scripting layer in 
> detail -
> particularly Ralph Marson. Perhaps he can explain what they did.
>
> Tim
>

My point Tim, is that there should be no loops and conditionals in the
observe script - what/when only.

Kev