Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?

From: kmathias@afit.af.mil (Karl S Mathias)

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:24:21 +0000

hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack) writes:

>Better in what sense?  Pascal, C, or any of a number of other languages
>are reasonable choices for a PBM game to use.  In fact, I'd recommend
>Pascal over C for most PBM games as it is a more bullet-proof/idiot
>proof language and would  be better for use by a programming novice,
>which most GMs are.  Pascal (esp. Turbo Pascal) is a mature compiler
>(unlike C++ for PCs) with extensive support in the form of books, add on
>packages, etc.  Face it - C is nothing more than structured assembly
>language for stack based machines.

Since a PBM game could run on anything from a PC to a Mac to a VAX,
Pascal would be a poor choice in terms of portability.  I would
recommend C++ (good compilers are now available on most machines).  This
will allow his PBM game to be designed in an object-oriented manner that
should be fairly portable among machines.  Pascal w/objects
compilers are extremely implementation dependent (and can hardly
be considered mature).

>Don't throw stones until you have had to make such choices in a
>professional setting.  What is taucht in CS classes has little
>correspondence to the real world.

Hmmm... the professional "real world" is certainly not using Pascal, it
is using C and C++.  Why waste time with Pascal when it won't carry
forward into other jobs?

My apologies to those who read rec.games.pbm and wish this thread would
die.  See you in rec.games.programmer.

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Karl Mathias                                  kmathias@afit.af.mil

"Opinions expressed are my own and not those of the U.S. Air Force"

References

Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:32:16 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:18:45 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
itlm013@judy.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman)
Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:18:38 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
Wed, 28 Oct 1992 12:27:37 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:32:16 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:18:45 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
itlm013@judy.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman)
Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:18:38 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
Wed, 28 Oct 1992 12:27:37 +0000