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Re: development languages
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: Lee Wenzbauer <lwenzbauer1 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 23:07:44 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: development languages
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Lee Wenzbauer wrote:
> tried
> modifying/writing scenarios in GDL and when they
> didn't perform as expected I went hacking through the
> ai code. IMHO if you can clean up and fortify GDL
> then it is easy to write a perl module that would let
> developers write in perl after they installed the
> module. That way you don't exclude anybody.
Well, if you want to see all the reasons why Perl may not be a
suitable replacement for GDL, please see consult the list
archives. We had a rather toasty flamewar over this (and quite a
few other things) around the middle of November.
If you are thinking about writing a Perl API for Xconq, then go
for it. I can think of several other people on this list who would
probably appreciate it, even though Python seemed to be a more
popular choice (though it was not always clear whether it was
being considered as an API for the Xconq engine, AI's, or a GDL
replacement).
Eric