Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames

[Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]

On 3 Apr 2002 07:06:34 -0800, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
wrote:

>Since you were honest enough to report your method, I figured you'd
>care about such perceptions.

Yes. I was lazy in my initial count, but that was because I didn't
think important if the result were 100K or 200K or whatever. I just
wanted to show that NetHack is not a "hack" of a few thousand lines,
easy to port to another language as a student project.

>o  If that is how you are counting, I have no clue what your numbers
>mean, because they bear no relation to numbers I am used to looking
>at.

As I've said, using your method count is about 85K.

>Looking over this thread, I suspect we are talking about two different
>things. I won't argue that hand-porting all the existing C code for
>the current version of nethack would be a lot of work. However, making
>a simple hack-like game that runs would be fairly easy.

Well, we violently agree here. What prompted me to intervene in this
conversation was precisely that:

>> Several years ago by now I promoted porting Nethack to Ada as a way to
>> attract college students to the Ada language.  The proposal fell on deaf
>> ears.
>
>As Nethack is fairly simple, its probably something a single person
>could handle. So rather than "promoting" it, why not just do it
>yourself?

So I expect you can see how I understood that you were saying that
porting NetHack (not writing a Rogue/NetHack clone) to Ada was simple.
Now I see you're really saying that writing an Ada rogue would be
easy, or at least interesting. I think the same. Quoting from my first
message:

>Anyway I think it would be better to start a rogue from scratch in Ada
>that try to port NetHack. I've been wishing to find the time to do it
>(develop a new rogue in Ada, I mean) for years... :(

(Sorry for the self-quoting).

So now the only thing lacking is volunteers to write the FARG
(Full-Ada Roguelike Game) :)

                                                                /Lektu