Re: [Arianne-devel] [Ulises] choice of scripting Language

[Waba <wab...@ya...>]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:54:01 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Gantner <pet...@un...> wrote:

> > Client side is not my problem. As client coder wants.
> >
> 
> Oh, so client side scripting parser will not be part of 
> libarianneclient?
> 
> If it was, you could transfer scripts between different clients, 
> which would be nice.
Nod. not only it allows transferring scripts, but avoids reinventing the
wheel at each new client.

> > But server side and considering that script MUST be very fast to be executed 
> > we should use a existing language for scripts, IMO Lua, Lisp, Python, but 
> > Python is 5MB big, I dunno much about Lisp.
> > So if I have to do it, I will use Lua.
> > It is simple to create extra script managers.
> 
> My guess is that the source files of server-side scripts will not do 
> much apart from declaring variables, doing some loops and ifs and 
> returning variables, and that code will work in almost any 
> language.
Although it would be cool if a script writer hadn't much to
forget and relearn when switching to/from client/server.
But as always, the one who codes is the one who decides...

About the language choice: If we have to compare Lua vs Guile, people are
likely to have more background in C-like languages
(C/C++/Java/JavaScript/...) than in Lisp-like (except the emacs or gimp
script-fu contributors).
Of course this argument is somewhat biased since I personally dislike the
()-syntax, but well..


[Off-topic] nephros: guess who was playing nethack half the nights, under a
tent, on a shitty laptop ? *grin*


Waba
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