[CF-Devel] Crossfire Scripting language

[Peter Mardahl]

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      Do we really need a full-fledged scripting language in CF? I was thinking
     
     
No, we absolutely don't.  I can't imagine using more than 5% of python's
capabilities, for example.

However, incorporating someone else's scripting language is way
easier than writing a simple one of our own.  Yes, even a simple one.

Furthermore, if we do need more capabilities, they'll be there,
instead of needing to be implemented.

At least, that's my opinion on it.  The most complex interpreter I've
implemented myself is a calculator, and THAT done by borrowing lots
of code from GNU.  (Well, I GLP'd the result, so it is not theft.)

PeterM