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

From: saschreu@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:49:08 +0000

In a previous article Greg Lindahl writes:
>In a previous article Steve Stelter writes:
>
>>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.
>
>Use a language that you are comfortable with. Other people are going
>to tell you about the languages that they like, and this advice will
>probably be useless for you. Writing a PBM game isn't that different
>from writing other sorts of programs.
>
>My personal favorite? Perl.

Beleave it or not, a friend of mine wrote a kind of PBM program
(it uses floppy disks and a client program) totally in BASIC!
And not in one structered kind of BASIC, but GWBASIC!
(linenumbers, no procedures only GOSUB's)
It was not only almost bug-free, but he added some features
during the testing as well.
I think this is a prove that in every language a PBM program can be written.

By the way: in my opinion the design of the datastructure and
the commando's recognized are much more important than the coding itself.
If these are designed well, the program almost dictates itself.
So: be sure what to make, and which features the PBM-program has to have.

Greetings,

Sjoerd Schreuder

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DISCLAMER: I never wrote a PBM myself, but I will do it someday.
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References

Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:18:43 +0000

Referenced By

Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:18:43 +0000