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

From: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:34:58 +0000

I would recommend C as the language for this, as it is easy to program
in, easy to maintain the program once written, excellent for handling
complex data structures like linked lists that will probably be needed,
produces efficient code and last but not least is portable. (There's no
reason why a PBM game shouldn't run on anything from an Atari to a Cray
so you might as well choose a portable language to take advantage of
that.)

One thing I would agree with a previous poster on is that you will not
get it right the first time (Galaxy has been rewritten twice since its
initial conception). I would say, go for getting a relatively simple
design working, and then plan on doing a rewrite at some stage when you
have a better idea of what you want, rather than trying to do a huge
monolithic specification, a huge monolithic design, a huge monolithic
program, that you will spend a huge amount of time getting to work.

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie

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