no, not really.
what other programming languages are easy-to-use, wont blow my pc up (lol), but are kinda powerful? (like BYOND, C++ looks like my programming nightmares rolled up into one o_o)
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 Apr 27 2008, 12:49 pm
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;o i gotta go to bed in a few mins, cause i'm tired, but any links to a complier?
i tried finding a C++ complier (lol, yes, i TRIED that, it makes byond look like baby-work), but i couldnt find it, greatly appreciate it~ | |
RealBASIC is proprietary, I just got a free license of RB 5.5 back when they had a limited free license giveaway for VB6 users.
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Python is a really nice language, and SDL (the "Simple Direct-media Layer") has a Python wrapper called pygame which lets you do some really need multimedia things.
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I've heard D is nice. Crispy swears by it, I just haven't had a chance to look into it personally.
Hiead | |
I actually heard Crispy hated it entirely. He (I think) advised Koil against using it, from his experience with YASCAG or whatever it's called now.
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I wouldn't recommend any basic based language, especially when there are more powerful and easier to use languages like Python and Perl on the market.
I highly Python from personal experience. I learned the basics in minutes and was able to find a lot of tutorials and documentation to help with building a simple game. It looked like basic programs of all types would take only minutes to create, and it seemed powerful enough to be able to create more powerful programs. | |
Danial.Beta wrote:
I wouldn't recommend any basic based language, especially when there are more powerful and easier to use languages like Python and Perl on the market. You also forgot the part about any language based of BASIC being god awful in every possible way imaginable. I'm sure there are some ways it's terrible that our simple human minds can not even comprehend at this point in our evolution. The day will come, and we will hate more. | |
Well, I didn't want to offend anyone, but that is exactly what I meant. I had a class that was taught using QBASIC and it was dreadful. It was hardly capable of running a change maker program, I couldn't imagine using it for any practical programming situation.
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D is too much in its infancy for any serious development at this point. Cryptic error messages and strange compiler bugs will slow down development considerably.
That said, however, it's an absolutely beautiful language. If you avoid the elitism of the community and try your best to self-teach using baby steps, D is great. | |
Strange, when he tried to prescribe it to me while working on YASACG it sounded like he loved it.
Hiead | |
~Kujila