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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-01 06:23:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: 1 Apr 2002 06:23:46 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204010623.10f1c17a@posting.google.com> References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <3CA3CE3A.FA587CCD@san.rr.com> <3CA51876.58FCFA50@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1017671026 31011 127.0.0.1 (1 Apr 2002 14:23:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Apr 2002 14:23:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21937 Date: 2002-04-01T14:23:46+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote in message news:<3CA51876.58FCFA50@san.rr.com>... > Marin David Condic wrote: > > I don't know of any other > > languages that have tasking built in as direct syntactic features of the > > language. > > Err, as I said, Tcl and Java spring to mind, for example. Probably > Python too. Eiffel, if it ever actually got implemented that way. > Hermes. NIL. Its appropriate that I'm reading this on April 1. :-) Serious game programmers value speed far too highly to even consider using a scripting language like TCL. Java would be more workable, but still has a reputation for sloth that would have to be overcome. The only other language I've ever seen that I'd count as suitable for game development that has decent built-in multithreading is Concurrent C. However, Concurrent C is even more under the radar than Ada, and to my knowledge has no high-quality free compilers available and no support for Windows (where most of the gaming action is). -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html