On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:53:34PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > If your project is 2D and you want to develop it rapidly and robustly, > and want it to run on all sorts of machines (not just linux) then I > recommend using Python with the pygame library (bindings to the SDL > libraries). Python has extremely string OO including multiple > inheritance. Pygame is a high powered and cross platform game dev API. > The games will run on Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD. Its also an ideal > chance to teach yourself IMHO the second best programming language in > existence today. Ive been programming computers for over 10 years in C, > C++, Java, Assembler, Perl, PHP and when I found Python it was like > discovering a hidden secret. Only LISP will server you better (all IMHO > of course... no fundamentalist language flame wars please).
This sounds interesting but I was really hoping to use C or C++ since I really want to learn more with those languages. I'll have to think about this a while. I've mostly overlooked Python as a programming language simply because it enforces programming style. Kind of weak of me I know, especially since that is basically the style I use anyway; however, I just don't think it is a languages place to enforce style. > Python can be slow, especially in large nested loops, but coding half > Python, half C is very, very easy (many, many times easier than in other > languages like Perl, Java etc). So in the end you may wish to optimise > parts of your code in C functions. Optimisation is always best at the > end of a project (Python even has a complete code profiling system built > in so you can work out where delays are!). But with todays computing > power, and a 2d game, your bound to have oodles of CPU cycles to burn. > Check out the pygame website www.pygame.org I'll take a look at this. I'm sure any slow interpreted language would be more than adequate for this game, but I'm still leaning towards C/C++ so I can use the knowledge I gain for other projects. -- Jason Stechschulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ypisco.com -- History books which contain no lies are extremely dull. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
