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-Thread: 103376,d32116f6f91c319f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language References: <41a152c2$1@x-privat.org> In-Reply-To: <41a152c2$1@x-privat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:25:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.16.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1101097513 63.184.16.54 (Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:25:13 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:25:13 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6315 Date: 2004-11-22T04:25:13+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Houck wrote: > > You don't see Ada mentioned anywhere (that I know of) in game > development circles. Is there a specific reason why? Primarily ignorance, with bias unsupported by facts a distant 2nd. You'll find a lot of pointer on Ada at adapower.com and adaworld.com. Among them you'll find the Mine Detector game: http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/mindet.html -- Jeff Carter "Alms for an ex-leper!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 75