21-04-2009, 12:43 AM
lua is awesome.
Look heavily into beanshell if you are thinking Java, its the nicest 'scripting' language I've seen bolted directly into Java. Import beanshell.* and BAM a highly flexible scripting language at your fingertips.
Of course, XML is rapidly becoming (if not already) the external file standard to follow and lua is basically a different implementation of that (or so I understand).
To be honest, I've always seen visual basic as a heavyweight adaptation of a scripting language, all the principles are there o.0... have you considered using classes? That might be more what you want..
Look heavily into beanshell if you are thinking Java, its the nicest 'scripting' language I've seen bolted directly into Java. Import beanshell.* and BAM a highly flexible scripting language at your fingertips.
Of course, XML is rapidly becoming (if not already) the external file standard to follow and lua is basically a different implementation of that (or so I understand).
To be honest, I've always seen visual basic as a heavyweight adaptation of a scripting language, all the principles are there o.0... have you considered using classes? That might be more what you want..