[j-nsp] Going Juniper

[Saku Ytti]

Juniper was founded 1996
Lua was released 1993
Ruby was released 1995

And of course there was TCL before, and I'm sure other solutions
before that. Embedding programming language to your tools isn't very
new notion. Maybe route-maps are sufficiently simple to justify their
existence, but RPL decidedly looks like it's suffering NIH and would
have been cheaper and better if they used some existing language.


On 18 April 2018 at 17:56, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 05:48:23PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
>> Personally I'm not sure why vendors bother inventing some DSL for
>> this, instead of just using prior art like lua or mruby where they
>> offer prefixes as objects with plenty of useful methods.
>
> "prior art"?
>
> Fairly sure JunOS is 10 years older than lua or ruby...
>
> XR might only be 5 years older.
>
> gert
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
>                              Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de



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