From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Luke A. Guest Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 01:07:00 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <2132831732.507949552.044529.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> References: <5f542dff-8dd0-49b8-8228-3ccc8248c57d@googlegroups.com> <276a2153-b81f-4e19-9615-530e798e5798@googlegroups.com> <1533893062.503569684.598007.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <735b077e-32a5-4e09-bf36-0a58fd9d85ac@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: AyuZhW75Kqxl+WN0h1BGcw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: NewsTap/5.2.2 (iPhone/iPod Touch) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sQ6yCLuHyZFihxyjU0ZQts1cjS0= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33254 Date: 2017-02-05T01:07:00+00:00 List-Id: Scott Loyd wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote: >> Wesley Pan wrote: >> >>> >>> What Ada really needs is to be used in fancy/cool/fun applications (e.g. games). >> >> I couldn't agree more. SDLAda is a start there. > > I'm currently working on an Ada port of Handmade Hero (handmadehero.org) > but it's slow going. I'm a relative newbie to Ada and doing it in my > spare time. Hoping to have something reasonably impressive to show off > soon but who knows. I'll report back here if/when I reach that point. Are you using SDLAda for that? Also look into pools for storage.