[Scummvm-devel] Fw: ScummVM documentation

J.Brown (Ender/Amigo) ender at enderboi.com
Wed Apr 10 10:13:36 CEST 2002


Oh don't be picky. :)


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On 10 Apr 2002, Marcus Comstedt wrote:

> Date: 10 Apr 2002 18:23:31 +0200
> From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus at mc.pp.se>
> To: "J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)" <ender at enderboi.com>
> Cc: David Given <dg at cowlark.com>, scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Fw: ScummVM documentation
>
>
> "J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)" <ender at enderboi.com> writes:
>
> > SCUMM - This is the scripting language. Far from popular believe, the
> > 	engine itself is not called Scumm :)
>
> Wasn't SCUMM originally the script _compiler_?  Although in the case
> where a language only has one compiler, this distinction does become
> rather vague...  :-)
>
> In a comparison with Java (the language):
>
>   SCUMM  <->  javac
>   SPUTM  <->  java (the interpreter)
>
> Or maybe I'm just raving.  That happens sometimes.  ;-)
>
>
>   // Marcus
>
>
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