Python in game development?

[Cees de Groot]

Michael Hudson  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> said:
>
>Another major advantage of dynamic languages like Python (or lisp or
>...) is that you can easily poke around at the data structures at
>runtime (which is rather less tedious than stopping your debugging
>session, adding some code to dump said data structures to a file,
>recompiling, getting your program back to the state you want to debug,
>then looking at the file, trying to remember why you created it).
>
And this gets /really/ great if your code runs in a persistent VM, like
Smalltalk. I've only poked around a bit with it (www.squeak.org), but
the combo of the VM, class browsers, object browsers, and an elegant
language makes me drool. Two things I don't understand: why I haven't 
looked at that language sooner, and why apparently no other language
has adopted such an environment.

(take a look at Squeak, and especially at the GUI, Morphic. Drop a standard
widget on a canvas, right click it and subclass the thing as it is alive,
and start adding functionality - methods, data - which works, of course,
just as well at run-time. Definitely a source of inspiration).

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