Pike的一份英文入门文档-第一章:大概介绍

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Preface

This book was written with the intention of making anybody with a little programming experience able to use Pike. It should also be possible to gain a deep understanding of how Pike works and to some extent why it works the way it does from this book. It will teach you how to write your own extensions to Pike. I have been trying for years to get someone else to write this book, but since it seems impossible without paying a fortune for it I will have to do it myself. A big thanks goes to Ian Carr-de Avelon and Henrik Wallin for helping me iron out some of the rough spots. The book assumes that you have programmed some other programming language before and that you have some experience of UNIX.

Introduction

This introduction will give you some background about Pike and this book and also compare Pike with other languages. If you want to start learning Pike immediately you can skip this chapter.

Overview

This book is designed for people who want to learn Pike fast. Since Pike is a simple language to learn, especially if you have some prior programming experience, this should benefit most people.

Chapter one is devoted to background information about Pike and this book. It is not really necessary to read this chapter to learn how to use and program Pike, but it might help explain why some things work the way they do. It might be more interesting to re-read the chapter after you have learned the basics of Pike programming. Chapter two is where the action starts. It is a crash course in Pike with examples and explanations of some of the basics. It explains the fundamentals of the Pike data types and control structures. The systematic documentation of all Pike capabilities starts in chapter three with a description of all control structures in Pike. It then continues with all the data types in chapter four and operators in chapter five. Chapter six deals with object orientation in Pike, which is slightly different than what you might be used to.

The history of Pike

In the beginning, there was Zork. Then a bunch of people decided to make multi-player adventure games. One of those people was Lars Pensjö at the Chalmers university in Gothenburg, Sweden. For his game he needed a simple, memory-efficient language, and thus LPC (Lars Pensjö C) was born. About a year later I started playing one of these games and found that the language was the most easy-to-use language I had ever encountered. I liked the language so much that I started improving it and before long I had made my own LPC dialect called LPC4. LPC4 was still geared towards writing adventure games, but was quite useful for writing other things with as well. A major problem with LPC4 was the copyright. Since it was based on Lars Pensjö's code, it came with a license that did not allow it to be used for commercial gain. So, in 1994 I started writing µLPC, which was a new but similar LPC interpreter. I got financial backing from Signum Support AB for writing µLPC. Signum is a company dedicated to supporting GNU and GPL software and they wanted to create more GPL software.

When µLPC became usable, InformationsVävarna AB started using it for their web-server. Before then, Roxen (then called Spinner) was non-commercial and written in LPC4. Then in 1996 I started working for InformationsVävarna developing µLPC for them. We also changed the name of µLPC to Pike to get a more commercially viable name.