Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games. MirthKit, a simple toolkit for making and distributing open source, cross-platform 2D games, uses Squirrel for its platform. It is used extensively by Code::Blocks for scripting and was also used in Final Fantasy Crystal Chr...
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Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games. MirthKit, a simple toolkit for making and distributing open source, cross-platform 2D games, uses Squirrel for its platform. It is used extensively by Code::Blocks for scripting and was also used in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King It is also used in Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2 for scripted events.
Squirrel uses a C-like syntax.
Factorial in Squirrel:
Random numbers using generators:
Classes and inheritance:
The language was made public in 2003 under the zlib/libpng license. In November 2010, the license was changed to MIT license to enable the project to be hosted on Google Code. It is developed and maintained by Alberto Demichelis.
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