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

[Jones, C. <CJ...@bl...>]

We are currently using Small on a large-scale PC RPG and a PS2/Xbox action
RPG.  It was also used on Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance for the PS2 and Xbox.


Small is relatively lightweight and about as trivial to integrate as Lua.  I
think Lua is a more flexible language in a lot of ways, but is sometimes
more difficult for people to grasp.  Small is really just a lightweight,
typeless version of C, so anyone familiar with C will be comfortable with
it.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hook [mailto:ho...@py...] 
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:59 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

>on every platform. Lua is write in clear ANSI C++ and is light. Port

Small correction -- Lua is written in clear ANSI C, and it compiles 
cleanly with a C++ compiler as well.  It's also been used by many 
commercial games and it's incredibly lightweight.  Its syntax isn't 
too bad either.

Lua's biggest "problem" is that it lacks a comprehensive set of 
"blessed" external libraries, something Python is very good with, 
however if you just need a scripting language, it's great.

Another, less popular, alternative is Small, which has nice clean 
documentation, a familiar syntax and seems to be reasonably popular 
as well.

-Hook




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