script language

[Killzone]

I have liked learning how to script from everyone on this site. Although I am still a hack I was wondering what computer language is the scripts written in. I would like to pick up a book that would teach me more if possible.


thanks

[THobson]

I find it best to treat it as a language all of its own.  

I have written programs in: algol; fortran; 6502 assembler; pascal; modula2; Basic; Visual Basic; C; Reverse Polish; Logo; MSDOS batchfiles; plus some I may have forgotten about.  Several of them in various different dialects.  It is none of these.

The program flow is like Basic - but reading a book Basic will not help you I am afraid

[Kaliyuga]

 I've never been the greatest at scripting .. but our editor's depot definately has some great tutorials on the subject..

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/browse.php?category=1_3

I've heard alot of people say good things about Johan Gustafsson's scripting guide.

:cheers:

[sim]

I do believe and have heard a lot of people say that the language is similar to C++...

 

sim

[THobson]

mission.sqs certainly has a lot of similarities with C++.  In fact it may well be written in C++, but the scripts we write are nothing like.

[sim]

They arn't?

How come Johan in his scripting tutorial keeps saying a lot of it is similar to C++?

like AND = &&?

and OR = ||?

 
I'm not saying your wrong, I'm just going on what I've read.

sim

[KTottE]

A lot of programming languages use the same logical operators, && for AND, || for OR, == for equals, != for not equals and so on.

The OFP script language is completely proprietary, and although it shares similiarities with other programming- and script-languages it is, like THobson says nothing like them.

[THobson]

As KTottE says, a lot of languages share many similarities, but that does not make them the same.  This is a C++ program that prints the word "Hello" 5 times, each on a new line.

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#include <iostream.h>
void main()
}
         int counter;
         for (counter = 0; counter <5;counter++)
              cout << "\nHello.";
}About the only similarity that this has with OFP scripting language is the use of \n to represent a new line.

[sim]

Ok, lol.

I appologise. You win  

[THobson]

Absolutely no need to apologise

[benreeper]

The "mission.sqm" kind of looks like JScript.
--Ben

[Killzone]

So In the end I guess Scripting is every language and no language all rolled into one.   :-\

I guess I will continue to learn from other people's scripts and this great site.

[Sui]

OFP script is a language unto itself...

The big mistakes are made when the script0r assumes it behaves like Basic, or C++ or pascal or something.
OFP is OFP...

Personally, I learned to program in basic a long, long long time ago (which could be considered a handicap, depending who you talk to ;D). There are many similarities, but assuming they are the same will get you caught out when your script stops working