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26 Jun 2024 02:06:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Next Generation SDL Brainstorming  
From: SharkD
Date: 10 Apr 2009 21:11:38
Message: <49dfee4a$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> - The scripting language should also be designed so that it's easy to
>   flexibly read, parse and write data files (as well as handle the data
>   itself). This would allow writing things like 3DS or OBJ file format
>   importers as libraries. (This is an example of something which should
>   definitely be a library rather than a core feature.)


I agree with this as well. I wrote a parser for Lua once, so I know how 
difficult it can be. Are there any examples of existing languages we can 
compare to that were designed with this aspect in mind?

-Mike


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