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

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

Hi.

> 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.

I mainly refered to the COM scripting host, which is incredably powerful. I
forgot about Javascript as a standa along language.

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

Lets not get into a issue of preferances. But the big 3 scripting languages
( Perl,Tcl and Python ) are all very powerful scripting languages are will
all pretty much work very well for every game. They each have their
strengths and weaknesses. Tcl is probably the "lightest" of the 3 and the
most suitable as a "glue" language (That's what it was designed for). Python
is "fatter", but also has more features, and would be more suitable for a
game that is very heavy in script. Perl is somewhere in the middle, but to
me it's more of a standalone language and less of a "glue". Also Perl is
very good at a lot of things that are very irrelevant for games ( regex,
string handling etc ).

> Simkin: Language features are nice, but I don't want to write 
No opinions, never used.

> 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.

See above. I would be interested to see what the overhead of python is. It's
faster than tcl, but it's VM is "big".

On a side note, FUBI is FAR more easy to integrate than Boost.Python, and we
use it for our propriety scripting language and it's a huge boon.

The subject of "off the shelf" vs "self made" in not in the scope of the
original question though.


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