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From: wrp <i3text@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada folks need to talk to C++ folks more
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:37:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: 2012-07-31T11:37:08-07:00
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On Jul 31, 2:34=A0am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On 31.07.12 08:08, wrp wrote:
>
> > With good graphics support, maybe Ada would be ready to support game
> > engine development.
>
> A an engine for new hardware?
>
> An engine for existing hardware?

Although targeting the Xbox and PS3 are important for the biggest
commercial engines, it seems that the majority of projects just focus
on the general computing platforms. An engine built with Ada/gcc
should be a viable choice among these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines