From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: No Itisnt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile for Game Scripting Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:05:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279944340 25300 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2010 04:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Mailing List To: Luiji Maryo Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 24 06:05:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcVzW-0005Ar-5N for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:05:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcVzV-00040Q-1T for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcVzG-00040L-M3 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcVzF-00009l-FM for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:38971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcVzF-00009g-DG for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk34 with SMTP id 34so715233qyk.0 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:05:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=FofrUjQUkN97t96ABGSfIeToT7lOVqGCEN1YY7HEugo=; b=fx7VwEgn8OLvtx2boSK6oqttIhHlZjzFtMYpPj4nzwBri+9cRx+5gyy8fj2DvXuFZ7 ch4utRas1po/sk2CdJk69cjhqzlp/cM+mggnlfz5RlHOIhRzKfnqvp0lfYfWAB8LfMkK LV784aPBc4gxSXe0VRefjDVpPRSuNfexfwLGg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=RMS8qur1fr5GUbrjtyW/YECJfxQfGYgZ7aecjhvdcV613GBzEXeoZmXFlifU37zA0Y y/Xa3TspI6bzqp0XHzG4nQuSWSyac0B+y18vb2zSHYRdrvfVjP7pcRAoCfuv5S3eH9c0 exTcYHps8l0EpbkDOO/14ItYg0mkPziXXzbeM= Original-Received: by 10.224.19.200 with SMTP id c8mr578732qab.309.1279944320918; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.233.6 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:05:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8002 Archived-At: Guile is gradually coming to support multiple languages, including a Lua 5.1 implementation which I am working on right now. So they are not necessarily mutually exclusive. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Luiji Maryo wrote: > As a side project, I am developing a free software game engine and IDE > for 3D games aiming for rapid application development, portability, > and quality even on old hardware. Cool! Good luck. > - If I use Lua as a scripting format, would it be bad to use Guile for > a markup language? Or would it be better to implement a short, > 50-line SEXP parser. > -- It appears to me that implementing a SEXP parser would be much more > efficient since many of Guiles features would be wasted. Yes, Guile would be a huge dependency if all you want is the s-expression reader. Look at Chibi Scheme for a tiny S-expression reader.