Before finding Panda I used to develop in Torque. Now that I’ve been working with Python in Panda for a while I wonder why other game engine developers such as Garage Games decided they needed to re-invent the wheel with stuff like Torque script when they could have used Python or some other pre-existing scripting language that many people already know.
So far my only real complaint with Python is the indentation rules. Some of the IDEs I have been using do not handle copy/pasted code very well and I get lots of errors because of it. Im now using PyDev on eclipse. The only other thing is not having a good IDE/world editor for Panda.
It would be really nice if these forums ran on vBulletin or some other board that has post subscription options. phpBB is good but a bit short on functionality and the search generally seems to return the same results.
I agree with hypnos totally, plus I would add that, after you’ll take your time to habit with that -limitation- (the indentation) or better call it -constraint- you’ll realize that stepping back to other unconstrained languages will be awkward and how annoying to put all of those ‘;’ to end up lines of code was and, most important, how much readable is a python script compared to C and his siblings
PS: I buy a Torque license too, dad gum it!
god I love Python’s enforced indentation. I teach programming to beginners and the hardest part of reading their code when helping them is that beginners pay no attention to indentation because the computer doesn’t care. I routinely see stuff like function declarations indented more than the contents of the function, and it drives me crazy trying to read their code.
I wish I could switch to teaching Python so that they would start caring about indentation, but that’s not really an option when I’m teaching programming to Flash designers.
