[openamq-dev] The iCL Class Syntax - undefined

[blog]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 21:08 +0100, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 10:43 AM, blog <blog at yankeeboysoftware.com> wrote:
> >
> > As a relatively experienced C/C++ developer, I was surprised when I
> > encountered this web page http://www.openamq.org/doc_wireapi.html, and
> > was presented with a new term 'iCL Class Syntax'.
> >
> > Strange, I thought, I have never heard of that.  I looked around the
> > OpenAMQ website for a definition, and when that failed I resorted to our
> > friend Google (http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=iCL+Class
> > +Syntax&as_eq=OpenAMQ) which was no help either.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate some description of the iCL Class Syntax,
> > since as the OpenAMQ documentation states "knowledge of iCL will make
> > your life easier".  In my case, any knowledge of this mysterious syntax
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Or did you guys just make it up ?
> 
> Yes, we made this up.  OpenAMQ sits on a fat stack of iMatix
> technology, all built to let us produce large, reliable C applications
> like OpenAMQ without going insane.  iCL is a part of this stack.  You
> won't see it documented on the wider Internet because it's not used
> outside our own apps, though it is fully reusable and GPLd.
> 
> (Let's just say that for non-trivial cases of X, it's easier to build
> a toolkit and then an application X on the toolkit, than to build X
> without a toolkit.)
> 
> There is more explanation of iCL on the imatix.com site.  I'm sorry
> the technologies are not better documented and more widely used.  We
> were, and still are, focusing on delivering OpenAMQ as a totally
> reliable product.
> 

Ahh, I found some more detail in ${IBASE}/doc/iCL/index.txt

I must explore the decision to not use C++, though.

> -
> Pieter Hintjens
> iMatix
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