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From: Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:15:28 +0100
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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^)

If you don't might 20% more typing and 90% less debugging than you are right
here ;-) .

> Anyway, I'm really intrigued by Ada and I'd like to "go out on a
> limb" and see how Ada measures up to C/C++ for game development. I'm
> thinking about both the 2D and 3D regimes, such as an isometric style
> game in 2D and a FPS for 3D.

Ada is true multi purpose language and that includes games. Interesting for
games might be:

 * the ability to defined you own float types (speed vs. precision).
 * abritatry sized integer (12 bit integer - no prob).
 * packed or un-packed arrays and records (speed vs. size).
 * true multi dimensional arrays.
 * choice OO or non-OO programming.
 
> You don't see Ada mentioned anywhere (that I know of) in game
> development circles. Is there a specific reason why?

Because they don't know better. It takes a month of two to see how cool Ada
truly is.

With Regards

Martin


With Regards

Martin

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