Other scripting languages popular on the web, such as Python and Ruby, are used in desktop applications. However, I've rarely (if ever) seen a PHP application designed to be deployed on a desktop. Why is this? What about PHP is holding it back from this, or what about these other languages make them popular for the dual use? ...
I am trying to build out a useful 3d game engine out of the Ogre3d rendering engine for mocking up some of the ideas i have come up with and have come to a bit of a crossroads. There are a number of scripting languages that are available and i was wondering if there were one or two that were vetted and had a proper following. LUA and S...
Has anyone had any experience targetting WSH in the way that VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, xbScript and ForthScript (among other) do, such that the language can be used from the command line and embedded in server-side web pages? Where do I go to get that kind of information? ...
Me and some friends are writing a MORPG in Java, and we would like to use a scripting language to, eg. to create quests. We have non experience with scripting in Java. We have used Python, but we are very inexperienced with it. One of us also have used Javascript. What scripting language should we use? What scripting language should w...
I have a small lightweight application that is used as part of a larger solution. Currently it is written in C but I am looking to rewrite it using a cross-platform scripting language. The solution needs to run on Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. The existing C application works fine but I want to have a single script I can maint...
I wanted to know, while deciding which language or technology to use for implementing an idea; a design, what are the factors involved in making a decision? Specifically talking about popular scripting languages, why would one choose to use ruby over python or perl or vice-versa? All these scripting languages have proved their worth, so ...
When should one use a scripting language over a more verbose, compiled language like C++. C# or Java? And to make the question a little more interesting, let's answer the questions like this: You should use a scripting language when... BLANK... When you need A use scripting language X. When you need B use scripting language Y. When ...
Hi Guys, I'm the founder of SceneMax - a 3D scripting language since 2005. I want to add a scene rendering using one mesh object built with 3d package like 3ds max and splited by octree algorithm for optimized performance. Do you know where can i find such algorithm which takes a mesh .X file,split it to nodes (octree) and knows how to r...
What tips can you give a person who is looking to write a programming or script language? I am not worried about how to program nor design a compiler but how to develop one quickly using tools and code generators. Last time i tried i coded it in c++ and the states and syntax took almost as long as writing the actual logic :(. I know the...
I want to have some work done on the Network front, pinging numerous computers on a LAN and retrieving data about the response time. Which would be the most useful and productive to work with: Perl or Python? ...
My graduate research is in Arabic Speech Recognition. My work involves dealing with text alot for different kinds of tasks such as: Cleaning up messy transcriptions, I work with diacritized text and it is very important that they are put in the right place. I use lots of Regular Expressions for that. Experimenting with search algorithm...
I'm thinking about using Python as an embedded scripting language in a hobby project written in C++. I would not like to depend on separately installed Python distribution. Python documentation seems to be quite clear about general usage, but I couldn't find a clear answer to this. Is it feasible to deploy a Python interpreter + standar...
[This question is similar to this one, but I am also interested in the possibility of a sandbox.] I am considering embedding a scripting language in my C#/.NET application and then exposing some of my application's API to the scripts. There seem to be multiple good options for this (Lua, Boo, IronPython, etc.), but are there easy optio...
Provide one line PowerShell script that you found useful, one script per answer please. There is a similar question here, but this one gives only links to pages with scripts, lets answers one by one here and have a contributed list of most frequently used or most useful scripts. 1.List most recent version of files ls -r -fi *.lis | s...
The last release was in 2008-03-06. What happened to it? Is it still under active development? Are there any replacements? ...
What is your preferred scripting language in java world (scripting language on JVM) and way? When do you prefer your scripting language over java (in what situations for example for prototyping)? Do you use it for large projects or for personal projects only? ...
In the many Python applications I've created, I often create simple modules containing nothing but constants to be used as config files. Additionally, because the config file is actually a Python code file, I can add simple logic for changing variables depending on a debug level, etc. While this works great for internal applications, I...
I am looking for an ECMAScript alternative to work as a scripting language for custom application logic. There are things I like about ECMA, especially the syntax for the newer spec(like AS3). Unfortunately, the AS3 engine is not open source to be able to integrate in a project. I would like a scripting language that was designed for ...
I wonder why a lot of programmers claim that Lua is faster then any other scripting language? What did they do that is more efficient then other languages? Is there something completely different in their approach? What makes their code run faster then Python for example? ...
I need to be able to expose "commands" that make calls to the host. I need to have simple easy to read syntax. It needs to be easy to pick up by non-programmers. An example would be as follows: Host Application: ScriptHost.AddCommandBinding("MyCommand", delegateToMyHandler, parameterDefinitionsStruct); Script returnval = MyComma...