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

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:25:50 +0000

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter):
>I guess the subject line says it all, really.  A friend and I have gone
>completely insane and have decided to write our own PBM game, and we're
>wondering if there are any computing languages out there that are ideally
>suited to this sort of thing.

It depends on the game, of course.  If your game is like most of the pbm
games I've played, I'd strongly recommend an object-oriented language,
possibly C++.  The nature of these games -- very data-intensive, with a
great deal of semantic and procedural information associated with the
'pieces' -- makes them a dream application for object-oriented design
and implementation.  As a second choice, especially if your game is
*very* data-intensive, with relatively simple computations and procedures,
consider using a database language such as Dbase.  What you should avoid
is a standard 3GL of the Fortran/Basic/C/Pascal sort:  There is no chance
that you'll get it right the first time, and you'll find it incredibly
hard to make fundamental corrections.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

"One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide.'
 Dad would show us a photo and ask us, "Is it a murder or a suicide?"
	  --  Colleen Doran

References

Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000

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Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000