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Yet another goddam scripting language by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/10/2012, 2:59am PST
Thank you, Roop, for posting that video about the construction kit for Skyrim. And my biggest comment was, "Oh great, yet another goddam scripting language" when the announcer mentioned that this construction kit had a new scripting language called Papyrus.

Do we really need to unleash yet another scripting language on the world? We don't already have enough with Lua, PHP, Python, Perl, Basic, Pascal, Java, Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, and probably a dozen others I've forgotten or are not aware of. Plus the specialized languages like Hugo, TADS and a few others used for writing Adventure Games.

For one thing, unless you have some really esoteric constructs you have to handle, I don't see why some pre-existing language isn't satisfactory for allowing user applications to manipulate the environment. Most of these, in one form or another, tend to be stripped versions of C compilers or close equivalents of C compilers because the language the designer added often borrows from C.

Plus there's an added point, if you use a standardized scripting module you have the advantage that the language processor has had a lot of people banging on it with various applications and thus it has had lots of real-world testing and the possibility of undetected bugs is reduced. Also, a standardized scripting language means there are thousands, to tens of thousands or more, of other people who know how to program in the language. This allows someone having a problem to ask for assistance and find it. Put out some new scripting language and all that prior experience in other languages is gone, and it's a long wait before the level of experience in development is there. It's reinventing the wheel all over again.
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What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/05/2012, 12:52pm PST NEW
    Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Brad Opeth 02/05/2012, 10:35pm PST NEW
    You were right to ask us this, Commander. by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/06/2012, 10:46pm PST NEW
        Re: You were right to ask us this, Commander. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/07/2012, 3:33am PST NEW
    Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Roop 02/08/2012, 6:23am PST NEW
        Yet another goddam scripting language by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/10/2012, 2:59am PST NEW
        Serious Sam 1? NT by Mischief Maker 04/17/2012, 11:54am PDT NEW
    Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by laudablepuss 02/08/2012, 4:18pm PST NEW
    My favourite genre is auto racing. by Jerry Whorebach 04/15/2012, 2:17pm PDT NEW
        Re: My favourite genre is auto racing. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/15/2012, 6:55pm PDT NEW
            I haven't played Blur and there's no demo on the marketplace, HOWEVER... by Jerry Whorebach 04/15/2012, 8:56pm PDT NEW
                Speak of the devil: id Software "re-mastering" Doom 3 for Xbox 360, PC and PS3. by Jerry Whorebach 05/30/2012, 2:54pm PDT NEW
                    On the improvement of games by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/02/2012, 2:52am PDT NEW
                        Touch of Evil would've been a better comparison. by Jerry Whorebach 06/02/2012, 5:02am PDT NEW
                            Of all my deleted OMM longposts, "Citizen Romero" is the most bitterly missed. NT by Mischief Maker 06/02/2012, 5:41am PDT NEW
                            I could not use T. of E; I never saw it so I wouldn't have thought of it NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/02/2012, 6:00pm PDT NEW
                                So you don't really care about classic films, you just want to bitch. by Jerry Whorebach 06/02/2012, 7:22pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: So you don't really care about classic films, you just want to bitch. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/05/2012, 11:50am PDT NEW
                                        The XBLA port of Doom was never cutting edge, not even back in 2006. NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2012, 12:19pm PDT NEW
                                            Looks like these might be new ports after all. My objections: mooted? by Jerry Whorebach 06/22/2012, 2:25pm PDT NEW
                                                PSYCH! They're the same old XBLA ports after all. by Jerry Whorebach 10/17/2012, 6:59am PDT NEW
                    $30 PC, $40 360/PS3 by Siskel and Ebert 06/20/2012, 12:20am PDT NEW
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                            hi Jerry of the past, hope you are doing well and still alive by bombMexico 04/22/2013, 11:14pm PDT NEW
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            You were right, Blur is good. Now listen to me complain about it for ten minutes by Jerry Whorebach 03/31/2013, 1:19pm PDT NEW
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    Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Oom Shnibble 05/30/2012, 9:44pm PDT NEW
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