2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl

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Re: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by repellent (Priest) on May 19, 2009 at 07:06 UTC
Quote from a past solution explaining the C-style Perl for-loop used: And yes, we could have used the Perl shorthand here and incremented our counter like this: `$total++;` [download] Right...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by grizzley (Chaplain) on May 19, 2009 at 07:58 UTC
Pity. Despite low Perl skill level of judges, I have learned a few "tricks" from previous edition.	[reply]
Re: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by ruzam (Curate) on May 19, 2009 at 13:36 UTC
It's Microsoft. What else would you expect? My only surprise is they aren't pushing IronPython (yet).	[reply]
Re: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by Bloodnok (Vicar) on May 19, 2009 at 17:30 UTC
I never thought I'd see M$, scripting and games all in the same sentence, especially as the 1st two are contradictory ... aren't they ??? :-D A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^2: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on May 21, 2009 at 19:36 UTC
I hope your tongue is in your cheek. MS has allowed scripting for a very long time and has provided mechanisms for it for a very long time as well. It was simplistic, underpowered, and in some ways outright crippled, but even early versions of DOS could be scripted out of the box. Later versions of DOS included QBasic, which was a trimmed-down version of QuickBasic. Some very complex programs have been written in QB (up to and including Wolfenstein-class games). Some fairly complex ones were written in DOS batch files with the help of additional utilities. I wrote a number of utility programs which used the two together. Windows has had access to most of the DOS batch language, the Windows Scripting Host, and MS has included Perl as part of their resource kit for Windows. They provide the C# runtime without royalties, paid for much of the development for ActiveState's Perl distro, and provide test environments to CPAN developers. MS prefers to make money selling development tools. Windows doesn't have the sort of gratis support for programmers that Linux or the BSDs do. It's going a bit far to say that Microsoft and scripting are contradictory, though.	[reply]
Re^3: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 22, 2009 at 21:19 UTC
Re: paid for much of the development for ActiveState's Perl distro Yea, I remember that. When Perl 5 came out, weren't they called "HIP" or something like that? Changed names a couple times before becoming what it is now.	[reply]
Re: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 22, 2009 at 21:15 UTC
I guess Perl just outclasses the others listed, so it's not fair to put them in the same game. You don't put a Formula 1 race car in a stock-car race, right?	[reply]
Re^2: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl by Anonymous Monk on May 17, 2012 at 06:18 UTC
2012 and still writing effective hta (html+css+vbscript) applications... yeah, that's right, i said vbscript... i would prefer perl, but, vbscript runs native on pretty much all versions of MS... so, i save the perl for linux/unix.	[reply]