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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:43:07 +0000
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:49:17 +0100, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Luke A. Guest wrote:
> 
>> My latest project (a game engine) is being written in C++ basically,
>> because I will be able to sell it if it's written in a language that other
>> developers can use straight away. If it's written in Ada, I won't be able
>> to sell it.
> 
> What about writing it in Your Favorite Language ;) and exporting the 
> necessary C names for linking and providing the necessary .h files? Is C 
> hard to sell too?

No C would be the easiest to sell. C++ makes things easier because it's
OO(ish), but like I said, you can't import C++ into Ada (nicely or
portably, it isn't defined by the standard).

And yes, you *could* write it in Ada and export them as C functions, but
you would still require a compiler that can target your particular
platform. Now, as I need my code to be portable, it's C++, unfortunately.

Luke.