Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Adding scripting language

[Chris Lawrence <quango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 01, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
> Tony Stuckey wrote:
> 
> >         I'd still prefer a targeted scripting language that uses game
> > concepts.
> 
> There are two reasons agains such language:
> 
> 1) you have to learn new language; maybe not much problem, but it is
> always easier to use existing one (and if you will learn existing one,
> you can add it to you resume :)
> 
> 2) most important - as noted on guile homepage, designing scripting
> languages take way too much time from main project. There will be anough
> mess with adding hooks to freeciv everywhere to add extra tytanic work
> designing own language, writing compiler for it etc. 
> 
> For this reason I think that we should decide either on existing
> language - guile,tcl, perl or java , or use one designed by Jules (as he
> is working on it anyway for other reasons).

I recommend putting in hooks for adding languages, perhaps allowing
you (the user) to decide which languages to hook up.  For example, I
might want to use Python, while you might want Guile (lisp, bleech).
If the hooks are there, and it's a compile-time option, everyone can
get what they want.


Chris
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