>> You certainly have not conducted any sort of survey of "most >> people" to determine what their views are or what influenced them.
>...and Michael, there's no way for you to back up the assertion that Paolo >can't back up his assertion. Kind of a pointless argument, don't you think? :) Anyway, I'm sorry if that sounded arrogant. I should have added: "most people I talked with about that". :) I've met lots of persons who think that script languages are "toy languages", which is not justified by the current state of the art (http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html). The difference between script languages and compiled languages has nothing to do with power, expressiveness, or availability of libraries. Just check Python's libraries or expressive power. Performance is a moot point too. In a game like HL, the bottlenecks usually reside in the graphical engine and the network communications. I've rarely heard of a mod where performance local to the game logics actually made a difference. Unless you're Jeffrey himself, of course - but we only get a handful of modders who do such sophisticated stuff. :) I'm not saying that a script language wouldn't make any difference. For example, you can argue wether strong type checking is good or not - and we'd probably agree that it can be either, depending on the particular project you're undertaking. I suspect that the whole UnrealScript versus C++ debate has more to do with the language being "proprietary" or "standard" then with it being "precompiled" or "script". Anyway, that's all for the sake of chatting. Now we know that we'll be able to use C++ in HL2. Still, I think it would be great if they added a good script language as a second option. --- Paolo "Nusco" Perrotta Holy Wars Team http://www.planethalflife.com/holywars _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
