Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: your mail

[W Stockwell <waldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:

> 
> If the talk starts to get into extension languages, please by
> all means use GUILE. Ok Scheme sucks, but GUILE is not about
> Scheme. It supports "pluggable-in" languages (currently supports
> TCL and a language the GNU folks made up, called C-TAX meant to
> look like C). Python is on the way but needing help. So GUILE
> gives the _user_ (not developer) the choice of language.
> 
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Good point.  I didn't realize Guile supported anything more than scheme. 
Both languages use the same functions to be imbedded?  If they use
different functions, it wouldn't be any more work than seperately
implementing scheme from guile and python too.  If it IS all the same to
imbed languages guile supports, with little or no extra coding to
accomidate two or more languages, by all means that would be the way to
go.  However, if it is true that it requires a great deal of extra coding
for multiple languages, then I would choose Python.  It has a very simple
syntax and if we did decide to implement only one language, I think it
would be idle.  WQe also need to consider the relationship between users. 
If one user codes in language A and another in language B and user 1 makes
a really effective AI that user 2 wants.  User 2 would have atrouble
imporving on it because he may not know that language.  It may be better
to choose a highly agreed on language to use so we don't have AIs in 2 or
more different languages.  It's a double-edged sword.  Which is more
valuable:  a choice of which language to use or having AI sources in a
single language.  It's defiantely sdomething to think about. 

Will Stockwell
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