development languages

development languages

[Lee Wenzbauer]

Hi,

This is my first time contributing to this list.  I
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.

Lee Wenzbauer

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Re: development languages

[Eric McDonald]

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

Re: development languages

[klaus schilling]

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

Re: development languages

[Eric McDonald]

Hi Klaus, others,

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, klaus schilling wrote:

> Perl may still be useful for riting *.g files,
> like forging gdl tables from SQL databases via DBI/DBD

Good idea.
Actually, the idea of creating and maintaining these tables in a 
database is rather appealing. If you create the necessary tools 
(in Perl or whatever) to perform SQL queries and tabulate the 
results in GDL, I think I would be one of the users of those 
tools.

  Thanks,
   Eric