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

From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 22:44:12 +0000

Before I have fun with language debate, let me first answer the original
questions:

> Programming a PBM game: What language is best?

You can't give a good answer to this question.  Any of the common
modern langauges will work fine for this application.  Pick the
language that you want to use, or the one that you have access to.

Now for some fun...

kmathias@afit.af.mil (Karl S Mathias) writes:
>Hmmm... the professional "real world" is certainly not using Pascal, it
>is using C and C++.

Yes.

In rec.games.pbm, hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack) writes:
>The real world is dominated by COBOL, database languages (like RPG) and
>Fortran programs.  There is more COBOL code out there than you can shake
>a stick at.  There are more pro COBOL programmers than anything else.

Edmond, Edmund, Edmund.  Where have you been?  Obviously not in the
"real world".  This was true back in the 60's when mainframes dominated
the computer world, but this is the 90's.  The computer world is now
dominated by PC's and Mac's.  And the language of choice for the PC and
the Mac is C and C++. (Granted, there are other strong contenders there
also, but COBOL isn't one of them.)

And have you looked around your house lately?  You might find all sorts
of things with built-in computers like a microwave oven, a VCR, or a CD
player.  Do you think these things are programmed in COBOL?  They used
to be programmed in assembly, but most compinies that do this type of
work now use C.  Now that just about everything electronic has a
computer built into it, there's a lot of C programming going on.

And have you placed a phone call lately?  Every phone switch I know of
is programmed in C.

COBOL does still dominate the business data processing departments, but
they stopped dominating the computer industry long ago.

There, I feel better now.

Curt Welch

References

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 21:02:27 +0000