Re: CF: Newbie hints

[Scott MacFiggen <smurf@csua.berkeley.edu>]

>> This reminds me... A friend of mine at LucasArts clued me into
>> a decent embeddable scripting language called Lua. I remember
>> some discussion a while ago about a possible scripting language
>> for crossfire so if anyone is interested:
>> 
>> http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/
>> 
>	Is there a reason why lua is cooler/better than one of the other
>choices?  AFAIK, most of the others are better supported, and some are
>smaller or can be stripped down to be smaller (not that it matters).

I'm assuming because it is very small, and designed from
the beginning to be embedded. It just compiles as a 
library you link with your program.. 

Python is cool but I don't see it being embedded so easily
into crossfire.. Assuming someone wanted to do it.

	-Scott
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