From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30339 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2003 10:37:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30324 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 10:37:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta5.adelphia.net) (68.168.78.187) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 10:37:37 -0000 Received: from Win2k ([68.169.251.17]) by mta5.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031118103741.QXVF11705.mta5.adelphia.net@Win2k>; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:37:41 -0500 From: "Erik Jessen" To: "'Brandon J. Van Every'" , "'xconq'" Subject: RE: Python in Xconq Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001501c3adc1$11b31bf0$6401a8c0@Win2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00756.txt.bz2 Perl has all that as well - I know, because I use them on a regular basis. Also, there are a great many modules others have written, to enable things like network play (RPC/IPC/IRC/etc.). But again, I've not seen Python, so it may do all those things in a much nicer way. Erik -----Original Message----- From: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com [mailto:xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brandon J. Van Every Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:37 PM To: xconq Subject: Python in Xconq From: Erik Jessen [mailto:ejessen@adelphia.net] > > I think having an interpreted language (v. the current Lisp-format > datafile) would put Xconq way ahead of the competition (like ADC2 et > al). I agree. Adding Python support is my next agenda item after Windows UI. I do not believe in Perl. It's ok for scripting, but it is a wholly inappropriate language for building systems. Python can handle both simple scripting and complex systems building. I'm not one to eneumerate Python's many features, but for instance it has list processing and hash tables / dictionaries built right into the language. Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA Taking risk where others will not.