[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plans for 1.12

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Monday, 26 June 2000 13:04 -0500 Tony Stuckey 
<stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:38:22PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > 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.
Sounds like a good idea if we can't decide on only one system; maybe we 
could even get generalized GUI controls for assigning which script 
functions get run on what things when (i.e. when one of my cities is 
attacked, apply foo_defense to it).
>          People who use C are smart enough to realize that it's really dumb
> to use it as a scripting language. :)
>          The big argument with scripting languages is whether to use a
> general purpose one, or an application-specific and defined one.  Both
> have good and bad points.
Or use the general-purpose language, where other people will kindly 
maintain the implementation, and just write a parser/unparser (or maybe 
this is more like a complier?) for the specialized application-specific 
one; the user (or script) can choose which language to use.
--Jed