Posts Tagged ‘scripting’
Squirrel Interface in C#
April 27th, 2010 | 
Author: I’ve worked with a wide variety of script engines and interpreters throughout my career in programming. It all started when I needed a configuration language for a multi-platform graphics windows kernel I wrote that ran under DOS, X Windows, and proprietary hardware based on the AMD 29K processor. My earliest attempt to implement configuration scripting resulted in a bizarre object oriented event source + event sink architecture we called ‘config’ and while it produced a working user interface for a few venture capital demos it was far from being a good solution. Thankfully I discovered Tcl 6.3 and replaced my handiwork with a simple scripting language that looked and acted like a real programming language. I’ve been hooked on scripting ever since.
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Scripting in Ancient Java
When Java Applets where all the rage I had the opportunity to work in a startup shop in Coralville, Iowa where Java was THE official language. Other than the stock charting server DLL I wrote in C/C++ you didn’t use Microsoft for web development you used Java. Read the rest of this entry »
