From: Todd Gillespie Date: 2001-09-01T04:49:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:20640] Re: Backwards language Sean Middleditch wrote: : On 25 Aug 2001 05:52:34 +0900, Todd Gillespie wrote: :> Have you hung out around perl-porters and talked with the Parrot people? : Last I saw Parrot was an April Fool's joke.... I figured as much. Parrot was the title of a new language in an April Fool's joke. A few months ago perl-porters started working on the Perl6 runtime, and ESR talked the Python people into working with them to build a common runtime. In reference to the joke they called it Parrot, but the project is very real. There is consideration to add Ruby to Parrot. A big thread about this blew through here quite recently. Check the archives. : Ugly language. Not what I'm looking for. My language is intended : mostly for games, which are usually "Scripted" by players who are not : experienced programmers. Heck, the first large "program" I ever wrote : was in Hexen's Action Script language. granted, I knew some BASIC and a : smidgeon of C at the time... : Still, TCL isn't what I'm looking for. ^,^ I really can't follow your flow of argument through that paragraph. Tcl was designed for use by non-programmers scripting together larger elements. It sounds exactly like what you are looking for. What bothers you about it? Prefix notation? I dislike Tcl for a few reasons, but it is very simple for beginners, and as I said, it is the easiest to embed languages out there. The documentation for embedding Tcl in any conceivable environment is extensive to say the least. The runtime is extremely simple, the message-passing is transparent, memory usage is small. Do you have any specific complaints/problems?