Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:31:54 GMT, Dale Stanbrough wrote:

> 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.

Probably you mean commercial games, for you do not mention Linux and Apple.
But in that case, I believe it would be no problem for a big software
player to persuade ACT, Aonix or RR software to target Playstation. Or
other platforms of even greater interest like mobile phones, for instance.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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