[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plans for 1.12

[Dan Sugalski <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:45 PM 6/26/00 -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> Although I know Perl, I have no experience with its facilities for being 
> embedded in existing applications (I don't even know if such a thing 
> exists), so I can't comment there.
Perl's reasonably simple to embed into an existing application, so that's 
not a big deal. Given the feelings folks have for particular languages 
(We've had perl and Scheme. Python'll probably be next, then someone'll 
want C for speed) it might be better to come up with a general API and 
dynamic loading scheme and let whoever wants to embed things just go do it.
Most of the folks that'll use this won't really care what language it's 
in--they'll be using black box scripts and probably just make sure that the 
scripting engine they need (be it perl, python, scheme, TCL, or whatever) 
is installed.
                                        Dan

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