Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2379 - 15 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2379 - 15 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2379 - 15 msgs
- From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:48:55 +0200
Jason,
They are so many embeddable languages out there that you should start
by defining what you expect from the language you will choose (do you
need to support plug-ins from the scripting language, do you need to
talk to other applications from it, do you need network support,
multi-threading, ) and what your end-user will do with it: number
crunching, automatization of tasks, behavior customization, AI or logic
programming, work-flow design, ?
Without specs from you, all what you will get here is an almost endless
list of all the embeddable languages available on this planet
(JavaScript, AppleScript, F-Script, Ch (and all the C, C++ interpreters
available), Perl, Python, Lua, Ruby, Prolog, LISP, Smalltalk, TCL, sh,
bash, tcsh, csh, BASIC, Onyx, Ficl, S-lang, Simkin, R, PHP, FORTH,
LOGO, Scheme, ELK, Eiffel, etc.), even XML may be a solution,
Pascal Pochet
P3 Consulting
email@hidden
http://www.p3-consulting.net
Le samedi, 24 mai 2003, ` 13:12 Europe/Brussels,
email@hidden a icrit :
De: Jason Alexander <email@hidden>
Date: Sam 24 mai 2003 11:21:09 Europe/Brussels
@: email@hidden
Objet: Recommendations for scripting/extension languages for Cocoa apps
I'm looking for a good scripting/extension language to embed in my
Cocoa app. My first thought was to use something like guile since,
based on my experiences w/ Emacs, execution of interpreted lisp
functions can be pretty fast. But, since I'm having difficulty
compiling the most recent version of guile, and am also completely
ignorant as to whether something better might exist, I thought I'd ask
for recommendations.
The eventual aim is to implement something like an interactive shell
in which users can type commands which are executed by the app. Given
this, I suppose I have a slight preference for a language whose syntax
is more like C or Java than Lisp, since most users would find that
syntax more natural. Another desiderata is how easy it is to
integrate the scripting language with a standard Cocoa-document PB
project.
Thanks,
Jason
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