From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile for Game Scripting Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:24:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282145403 1914 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2010 15:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Mailing List To: Luiji Maryo Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 18 17:30:00 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 1OlkaV-0000H1-Sg for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlkaV-00066b-3q for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50723 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlkY9-0004yt-Gh for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlkT5-00030s-NQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:49722 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlkT5-0002wG-Ka for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2ABCEB91; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:21:42 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=dnVfVJVcQm/h9tDP2bqaM8snoMo=; b=i91/qa xp+/T74PZyHfP01XHxiAnNAcqjGINAhZdXFRcgCsGW+N9mk/xmnKZTt28wwL3ZQx bZ6/f6R+xuicZLw3vhlGRXRiLoJvp7WCU5NMErJt8zM/NqD+HR5sz7XiH8plq5+N jzoVGp6SQ4ea69o5OLgUrLkiGkT8K2FMykQow= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=yeHecnkq/vHQ4e7WgfNlFKfXdzYySM9R yhxrqps5TehEN33l1CZc2T50KzPRb1XxxT6d5XXzIlnkJNufw8oE1tiWfNkKNRTE aktdhomps/y8qiK/9IwO3SP15/2VbsHIr7MLN+ay/l8OAXVG5XnpeOc1D3gkCmSR /rpkV5J+N6Q= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6D6CEB90; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [75.16.62.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DB16CEB8F; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:21:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Luiji Maryo's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:34:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4D42B71E-AADC-11DF-8273-9056EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:8075 Archived-At: Hi Luiji, No Itisnt has already mentioned that Guile will support Lua, but I don't think there's a problem with using the canonical implementation of Lua, no. Basically the thing is, use what you want, but GNU suggests Guile; and in the near future Guile will have decent support for a couple other languages, Lua included. On Fri 23 Jul 2010 20:34, Luiji Maryo writes: > - 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. But I'm responding to you over this paragraph. It's not about parsing, it's about (eventually) turning your application inside-out. See http://hydra.nixos.org/build/565540/download/2/guile.html/Programming-Overview.html#Programming-Overview for a discussion. Happy hacking, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/