asterisk users - May 2009 - Preferred language for Asterisk AGIs development ?

Hello,

We are going to start development for a product based over Asterisk.
According to you, which is the preferred language for AGIs / IVRs
development in Asterisk. I got opinions that Perl is going to be replaced by
PHP for all future developments.

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Drop Asterisk, move to Freeswitch. Much easier to interact with external
code bases, and it has more than one language interpreter built in
(javascript, lua, etc.).

If you're intent on staying on Asterisk, I would suggest skipping AGI,
and write a client that monitors the state of asterisk via the manager
interface. AGIs are messy in my opinion. There isn't really any
"best"
language for AGIs, as AGIs just communicate with Asterisk via a pipe. So
really, the best language for AGIs are the language you like the best
and/or best fits the application domain/requirements for your project.

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 11:52 +0500, Kashif Naeem wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> We are going to start development for a product based over Asterisk.
> According to you, which is the preferred language for AGIs / IVRs
> development in Asterisk. I got opinions that Perl is going to
> be replaced by PHP for all future developments.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kashif Naeem
> Business Development Manager
> Hadi Telecom
> www.haditelecom.com
> 
> Cell: +92 (0)345 4226006
> Office: +92 (0)42 5692766
>            
> Email: kashif at haditelecom.com
> MSN: kashif__naeem at hotmail.com
> Gmail: meet.kashif at gmail.com
> Skype: kashif.naeem
> 
> 302 Y Commercial Area, 2nd Floor DHA Lahore, Pakistan.
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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Kashif Naeem <kashif at haditelecom.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are going to start development for a product based over Asterisk.
> According to you, which is the preferred language for AGIs / IVRs
> development in Asterisk. I got opinions that Perl is going to be?replaced
by
> PHP for all future developments.
Just use the language You write the rest of system. If it's web
application, and You use PHP, You can use existing codebase of Your
project :)

Just be careful with this: asterisk and web server are usually run in
separate processes, so having common cache is troublesome unless You
check internally for effective uid and call sudo internally.

Regards,
Atis


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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Kashif Naeem wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are going to start development for a product based over Asterisk.
> According to you, which is the preferred language for AGIs / IVRs
> development in Asterisk. I got opinions that Perl is going to be replaced
by
> PHP for all future developments.
>
C.

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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Kashif Naeem wrote:
> We are going to start development for a product based over Asterisk. 
> According to you, which is the preferred language for AGIs / IVRs 
> development in Asterisk. I got opinions that Perl is going to be 
> replaced by PHP for all future developments.
My personal bias is C. I know it best and it performs best. I can execute 
xx to xxx AGIs written in C before you can load your interpreter (PHP or 
Perl) and parse.

You should go with the language you know best. If it isn't C, learn it :)

I doubt any language is going to replace any other language "for all 
future developments." Languages are like tools. If all you know is 
"hammer" then every problem looks like "nail." If you learn
about
"screwdriver" then you may discover a better way to open a sticking 
window.

Thanks in advance,
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Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
Newline                                             Fax: +1-760-731-3000

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at
sedwards.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Abdul Basit wrote:
>
> > I wrote the php code for asterisk that was two page long and wasim
baig
> sb
> > wrote the same stuff in 1/2 page line of code using python with
> > implementation of python libraries.
> >
> > yeeeeeee!!!!!
>
> If I wrote it in a single very long line of C would you be even happier?
>
> I guess it depends on the metrics you use to judge a solution :)

yap!

>
> Thanks in advance,
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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at
sedwards.com> wrote:
> I doubt any language is going to replace any other language "for all
> future developments."
The day one religion replaces all other religions, it may happen
because languages = religions = distros = platforms = your subjective
belief structures.