[JDEV] Client scriping language

[arh14 at cornell.edu]

Well, it depends on what you want to do.  Do you really need to offer 
scripters a full-fledged object-oriented generalized scripting language?  
There are necessarily going to be confines to the use of the scripting 
language (nobody is going to be doing transaction modeling, or database 
interaction, or some highly complex stuff).  Basically you are just going 
to expose a small API, and you need to give scripters the ability to 
access *only* this API.  If this API is very small, that could very well 
mandate a very small scripting language with a few pre-defined hardcoded 
keywords.  You really only need to give scripters just enough so that 
they can do something with the exposed API.  I would think most of the 
functionality of these full-fledged general scripting languages would be 
lost on it.

Aaron


On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Scott Robinson wrote:

> Hmm. I sorta discounted creating a new scripting language because it a)
> would be reinventing the wheel and b) it would only add to confusion. If we
> use a already known language, it allows others to convert quicker.
> 
> Scott.
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> * Paul L. McNeely translated into ASCII [Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 12:13:21AM -0=
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> > Why not derive a scripting language that is jabber specific? What I was e=
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> > thinking actually since there has been a lot of talk about skins is actua=
> lly
> > have a script set the skin, up, button positions, lenght/width/etc. that =
> way
> > whatever skin you use may make the interface look totally different. You
> > couldn't even have the script read constants to determine if the skin is
> > compatible with the client (wouldn't want to try running a win32 skin on a
> > unix console now would we?) I think it would however make X and 32 skins
> > compatible, as long as both had the same dynamic interface and scripting
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