Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-12-01 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> . >> . >> . > there's the security issue that really worries me. . . I have to be > able to limit what the interpreter can execute. I can't have my

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-12-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
Cameron Laird a écrit : > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fred Bayer a écrit : >>> Tony Belding wrote: I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-30 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fred Bayer a écrit : >> >> Tony Belding wrote: >>> I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a >>> user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I .

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-27 Thread Laurent Pointal
Fred Bayer a écrit : > > Tony Belding wrote: >> I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a >> user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I >> can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to >> call the interpreter and execute sc

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-26 Thread johnzenger
Have you considered JavaScript Spidermonkey or JavaScript Rhino? Sandboxing is automatic, and lots of people know the language already (although fewer people are familiar with its dynamic object-oriented capabilities). Tony Belding wrote: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted lang

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-26 Thread Jeremy C B Nicoll
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Belding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My final option would be to create my own language interpeter... If you're capable of doing that, I'd have thought you'd be capable of taking the source code for Regina and modifying it so that either no commands are pas

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-26 Thread i
Tony Belding skrev: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a > user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I > can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to > call the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but the interp

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-25 Thread rony
Hi Tony, Tony Belding wrote: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a > user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I > can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to call > the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but t

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-25 Thread Fred Bayer
Tony Belding wrote: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a > user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I > can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to call > the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but the int

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:11:21 -0600, Tony Belding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> the security issue that really worries me. . . I have to be able to >> limit what the interpreter

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-25 Thread Stephan Kuhagen
Tony Belding wrote: > Is this practical? I'm thinking of Ruby or Python for this, if they > can meet the requirements. Python had a sandbox module, but is was discarded because of security problems. If you want it working on MacOS, you may also have a look at Tcl, which has a long tradition on

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-24 Thread Timothy Goddard
Tony Belding wrote: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a > user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I > can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to > call the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but the interp

Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-24 Thread Tony Belding
I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to call the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but the interpreter must also be able t