Re: [GD-General] Scripting

[brian h. <bri...@py...>]

> I didn't get that impression. I assume you refer to his GDC 2002 talk
> (http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/). I was at the talk and I walked
> away with the impression that it worked really well for them. 

I swore I read something by him to the effect that the way we 
(developers) traditionally view scripting is fundamentally broken, and 
what they did with Go/Skrit was to re-examine the problem and think of 
it in terms as a database.

In other words, Go/Skrit isn't broken, but traditional scripting is.  
But now I can't find where he said that, so I may have just 
misinterpeted something else he said.

I might add that from what I see of Skrit, it's more what I consider a 
data definition language than a scripting language.  That's a semantics 
issue, but it's an important one to me.  When I complain about 
scripting languages, I'm specifically referring to the logic that's 
placed in there, not the actual use of a separate language to define 
external data.

I mean, I don't expect everyone to do:

const Vector kVerticesForGun[] = { ... };

=)

Brian