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From: Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au>
Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:31:54 GMT
Date: 2004-11-22T09:31:54+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MrNoSpam-F4583F.20315422112004@news-server.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mc9ft5ed0sn1.1ggueknj5qscc.dlg@40tude.net

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> I believe that Ada might be very promising for game development. What comes
> in mind first is:
> 
> 1. Ada has much more carefully designed numeric model than C++. 3D graphics
> requires a lot of non-trivial computations.
> 
> 2. Ada is highly portable. Games are usually developed for many platforms.

The major platforms would be (in no particular order)...

   Windows
   XBox (windows again)
   Playstation
 
There is no Ada compiler for the Playstation, so your argument has
less force than you think.


Dale

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-22  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-22  2:45 Ada suitablity as a game dev language Jeff Houck
2004-11-22  3:00 ` John B. Matthews
2004-11-22 23:10   ` David Botton
2004-11-23 13:10     ` Manuel Collado
2004-11-24  2:22       ` David Botton
2004-11-24  2:55         ` Jeff Houck
2004-11-24  8:53           ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-24  9:50           ` Manuel Collado
2004-11-25  1:00             ` David Botton
2004-11-22  3:23 ` stephane richard
2004-11-22  4:25 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-22  8:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-23 21:39   ` Nick Roberts
2004-11-24 17:59   ` Sandro Magi
2004-11-25  1:26     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-25  8:47     ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-22  8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-22  9:31   ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2004-11-22 11:02     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-22 11:44       ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-11-22 14:15         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-22 23:12     ` David Botton
2004-11-23  8:20       ` Luke A. Guest
2004-11-22 10:19 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-22 23:14   ` David Botton
2004-11-22 16:04 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-11-22 16:49   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-22 17:43     ` Luke A. Guest
2004-11-23  0:28       ` Dani
2004-11-22 23:08 ` David Botton
2004-11-24  1:05 ` Jeff Houck
2004-11-24  8:33   ` Luke A. Guest
2004-11-24 15:11     ` Jeff Houck
2004-11-24 19:26   ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-11-24 19:57     ` Jeff Houck
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