>Like XML, scripting was extremely useful as both a mod tool and an >internal development tool. If you don't have any need to expose code >and algorithms in a simple and safe way to others, you can argue that >providing a scripting language is not worth the effort. However, if you >do have that need, as we did, scripting is a no brainer, and it makes >complete sense to use a powerful, documented, cross-platform standard >such as Python.
The Torque Game Engine at www.garagegames.com is written in C++ and comes with a customized scripting language, torquescript, with a c-like syntax. Despite that, some game developers decided to add Python as another scripting layer on top of torquescript. The modified version of Torque is called PyTorque. I never tried PyTorque, but looking back on my time with torquescript this sounds like a very good idea. Torquescript was fine for convenient access to Torque features, but it never felt as flexible as a general-purpose language like Python. I expect that the Torque development team could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by using Python as an extension language to begin with. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
