Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

If you really believe that all the Nethack enthusiasts will jump on board
the Ada wagon because their favorite game is now translated into Ada, I
wouldn't try to stop you from doing the translation. Its your time and
energy, after all. I'd just suggest that "new", "different", "improved" and
so on, are better marketing tools. Investing time and energy and creative
talent on "new and improved" seems like a better idea to me. "Been there.
Done that. Got the t-shirt." is my gut reaction to translating a program
from one language to another. Maybe other people have a different view, but
I'd suggest that this has yet to be demonstrated.

MDC
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"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
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> Which misses the point by a barn-width.  The goal is to imitate the
> success cheesy text-graphics games (see also Empire) had in attracting
> lots of the best and brightest programmers to choose to program in C,
> back when Pascal was a lot easier to comprehend, and was the teaching
> langauge of choice.
>