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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d32116f6f91c319f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:19:32 +0100 Message-ID: <41A1BD34.8070203@mailinator.com> References: <41a152c2$1@x-privat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de cYLznKRA+pGf2DwNTLm8iw+MVKK74RCdWpox6tVl69qLCCUyQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <41a152c2$1@x-privat.org> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6320 Date: 2004-11-22T11:19:32+01:00 List-Id: Jeff Houck wrote: > Greetings Ada NG, > I'm new to Ada but have 15+ years background in C/C++ and x86 > assembly. I skipped Pascal and Java(yuk)and have used the usual > scripting languages, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, etc... > > I'm bored with coding C/C++ and would like to try something new... 8^) Apart from the enthusiastic posts you have received, I'd be concerned with bindings avalaibility... In windows you may get away with GNATCOM, but that's just for windows. I don't know the completeness of the openGL binding. There was a SDL binding but that was for an old version last time I checked...[*] In short: If you have the tools you need (or you don't need anything foreign) for your particular project, the advantages of Ada will pay, but if you don't you could be facing a hard start. Alex. [*] I don't want to imply these aren't appropriate tools, only that these are the first things I'd check.