Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: Uh-O .... look what I did.
From:    Nightfox (21:1/137)
Date:    Sat Nov 07, 2026 00:18

  Re: Uh-O .... look what I did.
  By: Exodus to All on Fri Nov 06 2026 04:33 pm

 Ex> Renegade BBS now has its own internal programming language.  And on top of
 Ex> that, I made a converter for MPL's to Renegade's RGL files so now you can
 Ex> use your mystic MPLs in Renegade if they aren't mystic data specific when
 Ex> you switch over to Renegade/DOS/Win32/Linux next month.

I'm curious, why invent a brand new programming language for it?  It's possible to embed an interpreter for an existing, mature language like JavaScript or Python into a piece of software and customize it with functions to call and objects to use, so that you can leverage that language's existing capabilities. You'd still be making a custom function/object interface for the language, but you'd be using a language that's already mature and familiar to some people.

Nightfox
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