[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12706) Events framework

["Peter Schaefer" <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12706 >

I guess a scripting language would not be slow if it was only used for
initialization or for rare events, like finding a hut, but it would be
tempting to do things like have a hook that makes a script listen to
common events like unit_moved_to (=>slow), for example to update an
internal counter which makes the huts act differently after every 100
moves ..

To throw some oil into the fire: 
scripting: lua (good: sort of popular with games, bad: extra
library,allows tedious manual stack processing and handling, much like
assembler; coolness bonus: for the funny or/and operators),

scripting:scheme (good: simple; bad:I'm no expert .. hard to read?)

data serialization: yaml (good: implemented in 7+ languages, bad: the
C version is not finished yet, but might end up being a "standard" lib
for linux)

On Apr 2, 2005 8:07 PM, Benoit Hudson <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree with Vasco that we need a reasonable language.  The question
> arises: how powerful a language?  Personally, I'm all for firing up a
> python interpreter to really let people go wild, and just provide an API
> for creating events.
> 
> The main issue with that is it would be hard to get the AI to understand
> complicated events.  There's also a runtime worry (would it be too
> slow?).
> 
>         -- Benoît