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