[hobbit] Server-side extension scripts: shell vs. C programming

[Gary Baluha]

>  Are you familiar with C programming at all?  Your question "...is the
> hobbitd_sample.c something that I should look at for this?" almost sounds
> like you may not be.  You could be for a long haul if your intent is to
> learn a programming language while converting your existing Hobbit shell
> script into something more efficient.  It's not going to be a simple
> cut-paste-compile scenerio, that's for sure.  Pardon me if I've interpreted
> you posting incorrectly.
>

I was asking that to determine if is an appropriate model specifically for
an extension script.  But yes, I am familiar with C programming.

Personally, I use PERL for my Hobbit server scripts, except the ones that
> are the simplest-of-the-simple, and for those I do use just plain inefficent
> shell.  I know C as well, but find PERL to be amost as efficient for what I
> do, and a heckuva lot quicker to program in.
>

I am considering C mostly because I'm starting to out-grow the capabilities
of simple shell programming, rather than purely efficiency reasons.  Perl
would probably also work.

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> *From:* Gary Baluha [mailto:gumby3203 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:13 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Server-side extension scripts: shell vs. C programming
>
> I remember reading somewhere in the Hobbit documentation that when an
> extension script starts to do a lot of things, it should be coded in a
> compiled language such as C, instead of as a shell script.  I have a custom
> script that takes a lot of data and converts it into NCV graphs, and I
> believe it is at the point where I should consider rewriting it in C.
>
> Before I get to far into it, is the hobbitd_sample.c something that I
> should look at for this?  I'm not sure if I'm reading the documentation on
> it correctly, if it is a good example for an external script.  Has anyone
> else had experience in needing to convert a shell script to C/C++/etc for
> Hobbit?  I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how much effort this will
> require.
>
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