Programming Language for Games, part 3

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 01.11.2014 um 22:20 schrieb "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>":
> On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 17:17:34 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Another trend, which I find positive, is how many people are now
>> (finally!) assuming that C widespread into the industry was after all
>> not that good, in terms of bugs/line of code.
>>
>> Now we need another 30 years until D, Rust, Swift, Nim, <place
>> language name here>, get to replace C and C++.
>
> Jonathan referenced Mike Action, who when asked about what C++ vs C said
> he preferred C and that using C++ was cultural:
>

I mean in terms of unsafe code and the amount of money spent in research 
and bug fixing that could have been avoided, if C wasn't as it is.

I wouldn't be that vocal about C if:

- arrays were bound checked (just use a compiler flags and dataflow to 
remove them like any sane language)

- enums were strong typed

- had reference parameters

- had namespaces or real modules

- no implicit type conversions

- had a sane macro system

But I guess D already covers it...


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Paulo