Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Adding scripting language

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"jrb3@xxxxxxxx (Joseph Beckenbach III, CCP)" wrote:
> 
>         On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:14:35 +0100  Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> > Absolutely.  To quote from the perl book, 'Theres More Than One Way To
> > Do It'.
> 
>         There's also TCL, which was written specifically with being embedded
> in mind.  It's also a stable language, well documented, well supported, and
> open source, with many people who can teach it and many resources readily
> available for those who wish to learn it.  There are also well-documented
> object-oriented extensions which answer the duplication issues, and very
> well documented and well understood mechanisms to easily extend the underlying
> TCL language for specific programs.
> 
>         See http://www.scriptics.com/ for one major entry into TCL cyberspace.

While we're listing possibles, python is also rather a good one.

Python is sufficiently flexible in overriding language constructs, that
its possible to more-or-less create a customised freeciv language *in*
python.  And python (like TCL) was always designed with easy embedding
into other languages as a goal.

Jules

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