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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Doom 3 Is Being Rewritten In Ada
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:26:52 +0000
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polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 12:38:57 PM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 15:15:25 UTC, Mr. Man-wai Chang  wrote:
>>> On 7/03/2017 9:47 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>>>> id Tech 4 / Doom 3 Is Being Rewritten In Ada
>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ada-Doom-3
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> But why? Other than for fun? :)
>> 
>> Why not? Ada is perfect for games as it is for many other areas.
> 
> Does ada have nice abstraction like lisp and haskell?
> 

Why? C and C++ dont and people write games in those.