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

From: fletcher@netcom.com (F. Sullivan Segal)

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 16:10:44 +0000

In article <1992Oct28.122737.8174@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack) writes:
>In article <18558@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> itlm013@judy.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep29.171845.9287@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>>>Actually, quite a few of the early commercial PBM games were written
>>>in Basic. Can we please have language flamewars elsewhere?
>>Pascal when C or C++ is such a better option?
>
>packages, etc.  Face it - C is nothing more than structured assembly
>language for stack based machines.

You seem to have confused C with Forth.  Although C inherently relies
on a stack mechanism on the target machine for subroutine calls, it
has no closer link to that mechanism than Pascal does.

However, C is a much more mature language than Pascal, providing hundreds
of convenience functions which would have to be rewritten for each program
that needs those capabilities in Pascal.  To wit:
	quicksort
	pattern expression compiling and matching
	btrees, hashlists, sorted lists
 	buffered file i/o
	string spanning and break sets
	string to binary conversion and back again in any base
	...

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References

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