Re: Programming Languages

From: philen.philen@ans.ans.net.net

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

On 15 Jan 1998, Rich Skrenta wrote:

> rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell) writes:
> > I would suggest that the best choice is Perl, because of its superb text
> > manipulation capabilities.
>
> For a simple project, that might give a useful headstart.  But
> database operations may tend to dominate larger games more than
> regex parsing.
>
> Order parsing is around 6% of Olympia's code, counting generously.
> Most of the game code is logic to process player orders while
> inspecting and altering the database.
>
> OO would seem to lend itself really well to modeling a game universe.
> I'll let you know...  :-)
>
> But I would have to agree with Greg's comment:
>
> > But most of all, you should use a language with which you're familiar.

Speaking as one who is in the tortuous process of writing a game in Perl,
I agree that the database stuff is what gets you. Perl made turn parsing
and report generating pretty easy, but I wrote an entire database
management system from scratch and it's still killing me (that and a good
map generating algorithm). Right now it loads everything into memory as
object data, but someday it might have to operate on stored data
(shudder).

phil

References

Re: Programming Languages
rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Programming Languages
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Programming Languages
rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Programming Languages
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000