Support for a new scripting language.

[Giancarlo Niccolai]

Hello. I have been directed here by Mikael Hallendal in the GTK+ devel
mailing list.

Sorry for being impolite and jumping in, but it seems there is no other
mean to contact GTK developers.

I lead a project for a new embeddable open source scripting language
called "The Falcon Programming Language":

http://www.falconpl.org

We have just released a stable version of our scripting language and we
would like to provide a module to integrate GTK+.

Actually, what we would like to do is to provide an abstract windowing
system, of which GTK+ would then be the first (and preferred) driver.
However, we would glad do have also a pure GTK+ binding, or possibly
both the AWS and the binding.

I feel most comfortable in programming with GTK+, and I regard GTK+ as
the library that allows faster GUI programming and better GUI
design-from-code (i.e. what-you-program-is-what-you-get) I've ever come
in touch with; and I know a few.

In the past, I realized a GTK+ based GUI interface for a language called
Xharbour (an X-Base descendant), so I am not completely new to the
topic. What we're missing now are programming hands; if you or someone
you know may be interested in participate our project, please contact me
or register with the forum at our server:

http://www.falconpl.org/forum

Anyhow, I hope I can count on the assistance of the people in this list
in our development effort, were we in need for some advice.

TIA,
Giancarlo Niccolai.

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[Nigel Tao-2]

> I lead a project for a new embeddable open source scripting language
> called "The Falcon Programming Language":

I'm just skimming over the survival guide, and whilst I'm a fan of
more open source, I'm wondering why, practically speaking, I would
choose Falcon over Python (or Ruby, for those who swing that way).
Sure, there are features here and there (like the .= operator, the
continue dropping statement, $ aliases and # evals), but Python is
pretty good, it's proven, and I would need convincing to switch over.
Can you convince me?

Also, one of the declared goals is a simple but elegant grammar, but
then things like "=" meaning both assignment and equality seems
inelegant to me, since it special-cases this line of code:
a = 0 and print( "a > 0" ) or print( "a <= 0" )
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