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Submitted by , posted on 19 January 2000
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Well, this is a somewhat different screenshot than that which is typically shown
at the Image of the Day. This screenshot shows the IDE for my own developed
Scripting Language called PumpScript. It's a full featured language which is a
mixture of Java and C++ !! It's fully object orientated. You can derive classes
from other classes, references to other objects, functions, returns and all
that.
It of course also features a Virtual Machine, which is implemented in my own
3DEngine called PumpEngine. However the VirtualMachine can be implemented in
every program, not only 3DEngines. I also equipped one of my Windows-Apps with
PumpScript for plug-ins, and stuff like that. PumpScript is fairly slow (about
20-30 times slower than compiled C++ code) but you can also declare functions
which resist in a DLL (check out the native function declaration in
Armor.class), and you can call PumpScript functions from C++. When programming
in PumpScript it doesn't matter if you call a function in a DLL or if you call a
function which is implemented in PumpScript. Data types are the same as in C++
(int, float, long, unsigned char, unsigned int, etc....). If you program
functions in a DLL it also does not make any difference from programming a
"normal" DLL. All the details (passing variables and values as parameters from
PumpScript to the DLL and the other way round) is all managed by the Virtual
Machine. A quite good Garbage Collector frees up allocated memory as soon as it
isn't used anymore, so in PumpScript you do not need to free memory (the same as
in Java).
At the right bottom of the image you see a screenshot of my 3DEngine. The
"asteroid" in the middle of the screen is controlled with PumpScript.
Phillip Schuster
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