From: claird@... (Cameron Laird)
Date: 2001-03-05T16:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11993] Re: Not Ruby, for me, for the moment at least

In article <97s87k$ndn$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au>,
Michael Kreuzer <mkreuzer(nospam)@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
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>The six languages I considered were Javascript, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby &
>Scheme (various flavours of Scheme).
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>(2) Javascript (in the form of Spider monkey) and Python compiled straight
>out of the box for 1 point each, Lua could be made to compile with a lot of
>work & the others remained inscrutable. Their Unix support I'm sure is fine,
!  Thanks for the tip; I had no idea Spider
Monkey was so advanced.
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>(3) Examples of AI code only existed for Lua, it's used in the game Baldur's
>Gate (and other games using the same engine).  1 point for that.
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AI?  As in "artificial intelligence"?  There's
PLENTY of AI written in Scheme and Python.
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