Re: Scripting Systems

Thatcher Ulrich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 30, 2004 at 03:50 -0500, Brian Hook wrote:
> 
> Since the NJS implementation scored poorly, that was the only
> datapoint I had to go by for SpiderMonkey even though it's an
> unrelated codebase.  I was taken to task for this assumption
> (rightfully so), but at the same time that's effectively asking me to
> try out every language and see for myself if it's going to be
> effective or not, and I don't have that kind of time.  There are
> probably 20 or so small languages that are interesting in some fashion
> or another (Small, IO, etc.) but which I don't have the time to really
> sit down and exhaustively give a "fair" assessment.
> 
> So I put the onus on the implementors if they want people to adopt
> their stuff.

Yeah, agreed, you have to be pragmatic.  Another way to look at this
is that community/social/marketing attributes of programming languages
are very important -- in many respects more important than technical
aspects.

-- 
Thatcher Ulrich
http://tulrich.com


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