Re: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

[brian s. <pud...@po...>]

JavaScript: x-platform if you grab the Mozilla implementation; not sure 
what the footprint would be on a console, and of course you have the 
garbage collection issue.  Language is very nice though and of course 
there's plenty of reference material out there.

Tcl: Not my cup of tea but may be someone else's?

Simkin: Language features are nice, but I don't want to write script in 
XML.  And the other file format looks even less clear, if that's 
possible: look at http://www.simkin.co.uk/Docs/Simkin/Example.s.txt.  
What goes in the brackets?  Well, brackets seem to group method 
arguments with the method body.  Except when they're  used to block out 
comments.  But comments can also follow double slashes.  Hmmmm.  Well, 
I'm sure I can count on my designers to sort it all out...I mean, they 
already *almost* understand what a source control system does, so this 
should be cake.

Python: if it proves to be viable on consoles (I'm watching others and 
hoping for the best) I would be very happy.  I haven't seen other 
languages with anything close to Boost.Python for ease-of-integration; 
it is seriously impressive: http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/.  
Other positives are same as JavaScript: lots of reference material, very 
readable, etc.

--brian


Gareth Lewin wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Marc Fascia [mailto:ma...@ma...]
>>It seems that Python, Lua and Ruby are 
>>popular choices in that topic.
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>Other good choises are tcl, and javascript/vbscript if this is a win32 only
>product.
>_______________________
>Regards, Gareth Lewin
>Programmer, Climax Solent.
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