"Christian" <christians / syd.microforte.com.au> wrote:
>
>I will start with the expression that I find your posts most interesting
>Stephen. You have a lyrical style that I both envy and enjoy.
>
>"Stephen White" <steve / deaf.org> wrote:
>
[...]
>You misunderstand me. I am interested in Ruby as a scripting language for 
>my
>project. To clarify my position, I am leading a team that hopes to write 
>the
>next Big Thing in massively multiplayer online games
>(www.microforte.com.au/bigworld).
>
>Clearly, we need a good scripting language (I shan't define 'good' here). I
>gave one up, but concensus was that we needed an existing, 'proven' 
>language
>(that wasn't 'weird'). Personally I am not convinced, but reality is
>reality. I currently use stackless Python for both server- and client-side
>scripting. It was the default choice. A collegue mentioned Ruby and here I
>am.

A significant gotcha.  If you wish to embed Ruby in a
commercial product you will likely wish to tear out or
replace the regular expression engine.  It is under the
GPL.

But Matz is currently looking for an engine under a
more amenable license with acceptable performance, which
handles Perl extensions, and which has good multi-byte
support.  So if your game takes a while to deliver that
problem may go away on its own.

[...]

Cheers,
Ben
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