[MUD-Dev] Scripting:was Modular Mud

[Jon A. Lambert]

On 26 Aug 98, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> On 08:33 AM 8/26/98 -0400, I personally witnessed pomales jumping up
> to say:
> >
> >Ok my stupid question of the day, Is there a freely available JavaScript
> >Parser/Interpretor??? I am currently using JPython in that regard.
> 
> Found it!
> 
> "The Microsoft Script Control, related documentation and a
> demonstration can be downloaded... as part of the Microsoft
> Scripting Library. The control is available to all developers at no
> charge (connect-time charges may apply)."
> 

Wow. Thanks for the link!  I was blissfully ignorant of any of 
this.  I checked for it on a laptop at work running Win98 and found 
that it has the windows script host already installed on it.  

Heads up to JC Lawrence...

--<cut>--
  Dan Small (Microsoft): Yeah but the scripting is almost the failing
    of UNIX not a virtue. [talkover] (Audience laughter)

  ...deletia...

  Audience 12: The statement you made was very characteristically
    Microsoft arrogance. You said basically that you don?t need
    scripting, and scripting allows you, scripting says, "Okay, we
    don?t know everything that you?re going to do as a user, you can
    go off and put these things together."

  Dan Small (Microsoft): Scripting means the tools may be inflexible
    enough to adopt to every situation that they use them [talkover]
--<cut>--

This appears to be a complete turnabout from Small's comments.

The current engine appears to support execution modes from within IE 
and more interestingly from the command shell.  Looks like DHTML, 
VBScript, JScript and Perl are currently supported with XML, Python 
and possibly REXX to come.  It looks like you can write your own
script engines.  And engine source code too (looks like a lot of 
blood in the license).  Hmm, porting VBScript to Linux (wouldn't 
that be a hoot).  

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