Re: [pygame] people hating python for game dev.

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Ashurst wrote:
> Seriously though, it's not that hard to write a scripting language. I found
> (and have now subsequently lost, it seems) an article on writing a CPU
> emulator in Python, starting with your own machine code, which you could
> then take and write an assembly language for, and finally an interpreter to
> go on top of that (I actually still have the source for it, if anyone would
> be interested in building a base ten cpu emulator ;) ). If you can write an
> emulator and three distinct languages for a fake piece of hardware,
> shouldn't it follow that you could create a fake language for a distinct
> video game?

I find this concept interesting because of the possibility of using such 
a language to have a nearly-natural-language, or at least 
simple-text-menu, interface for beginners to write little programs. You 
could have "code blocks" that accept and send certain kinds of data 
from/to each other depending on how they're hooked up -- and the program 
itself writes the actual Python code behind the blocks. The code 
wouldn't crash even if it were poorly written; sending irrelevant input 
to a block just wouldn't do anything.

And then you could try having the program propose programs of its own...

Kris