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

From: cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood)

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:48:35 +0000

In article <88#p0rn.dani@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>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.
>

I've always wondered about using ICON for the parser for the program, it's
a language unqiuely suited to handling text.  After the parsing, the
program can 'normalize' the data for the database program.  Opinions?

Jeff Wood
cinnibar@netcom.netcom.com
"We know about the red button, what about the blue and white ones?"
.

References

Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:25:50 +0000
Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000