Am 14.04.2011 00:38, schrieb Jaime Vives Piqueres:

> At last, after some 8 months, I'm nearly finished with my
> lightmap-baking demo/tutorial. The technique I developed works great
> within the limitations of lightmapping, but I've a problem deciding
> which scripting language to use for a little external tool that is
> necessary to write some files.

Any popular general-purpose scripting language will probably do: I guess 
Perl, Python and Ruby all come with interpreters for most any platform 
you might name.

I know none of these, so like Darren I'd personally go for Tcl; as 
already mentioned, you don't need to use Tk (the most popular GUI 
toolkit for Tcl), but I find it a nice-to-have. I know of free 
interpreters for both Linux and Windows, and I guess there's something 
for the Mac available as well.

One thing that should be noted is that not all people accept all 
scripting languages equally well, and some may refuse to install 
interpreters for whatever language you choose. I, for instance, would 
hesitate to install a PHP interpreter on my machine, but would be ok 
with Perl, Python or Ruby (and, as you probably guess, have Tcl 
installed already); I must confess this is an only marginally 
rationalized preference, but I may not be alone with such a preference.

Interestingly enough, I don't recall ever hearing anyone take a 
categoric stance against Tcl, so it might raise the fewest resentments.

That said, when it comes to writing platform-independent scripts with 
the intention to distribute them, I think the most commonly used 
language for such a purpose might be Perl.

In case you should decide to split up the script into a kind of config 
file and the actual code, Java would probably be the way to go.

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