[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plans for 1.12

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Tobias Bengtsson wrote:
> On m?n, jun 19, 2000 at 11:32:08 -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> 
> > So I wouldn't have to micromanage quite so much.  I'd like to see GUILE 
> > used for this, since I'm a bit of a Scheme person, and it _is_ in the To Do 
> > list, after all. (-:  Of course, it'd probably have to be optional at 
> > compile-time, so that people whose systems don't have GUILE and who don't 
> > want to or can't (?) install it can still use the rest of Freeciv.
> 
> Why dont we use perl? Perl exists on more platforms than GUILE, more people
> know how to code it.

Agree.

> Sure, GNU said GUILE should be used, but I say think again..
> Scheme coders are rare.

GNU said this because GUILE is intended to be language-independant.
GUILE supports SCHEME.
Restricted C and Tcl are half-made.
When/If they will support Perl, I will reconsider.