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Re: development languages
Eric McDonald writes:
> 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).
>
Perl may still be useful for riting *.g files,
like forging gdl tables from SQL databases via DBI/DBD
Klaus Schilling