Re: [Realtimebattle-devel] FreeCiv Scripting

[Ragnar O. <rag...@st...>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Benoit ROUSSEAU wrote:

> Here is a point of freeciv todo-list (about Run Time Scripting)
>
> Scripting would be a very useful Freeciv extension. As well as opening the
> possibility of writing AI clients as scripts, it would also allow human
> players to have helper macros and other useful things. It might also be
> useful for future Freeciv unit-testing.
> Recently, the FSF announced that they had chosen GUILE as their standard
> and preferred application scripting language. Based on Scheme (a LISP
> derivative), GUILE is rapidly gaining in popularity.
>
> Basing Freeciv's scripting on GUILE would allow us to tap the wealth of AI
> experience in the LISP and Scheme worlds, and would attract yet another
> audience cross-section.
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> What about ours scripting language?
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We have rethought now and we have decided to think of doing the scripting
for arenas in guile. It would mean that we should not have to build a
parser etc. and make it a lot more flexible.

/Ragnar