Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ?

Heh, that's interesting coincidence, I want to do something similar. I
programmed 8bit videogames in 1980s and now I want to create some "old
school" simple (2d) games, just for fun. I never liked C/C++ so I am
trying out various languages. And Eiffel looks very promising - I am
able too create my simple test game (which uses NCURSES) without
actually having to program simple line in C. Plus it's very small and
very fast. Actually, Eiffel seems to be the most interesting language
I saw since Smalltak. The whole 'design by contract" seems really
appealing, forcing you to write clean code...

On Apr 6, 2005 7:14 PM, Dominique Colnet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arnaud Payement wrote:
> > Hello,
> Hello,
> > I think mainly about 3D games. That is why I search an efficient language,
> > which could be easily used with C (or inline assembly) in critical parts of
> > the code. I am currently looking for something different from the ugly but
> > industry standard C++.
> If you search for efficiency, SmartEiffel is for you. Furthermore, I
> have said "SmartEiffel" and not "Eiffel". We won't implement what can
> make our code slow even if it comes in the standard. Furthermore, I
> don't like public bashing, but it is well knowned that our generated C
> code is very good (no to say the best, probably ;-).
> > Many reports point out that the big majority of game
> > development studios do not have a good approach in front of software quality
> > and waste a lot of time in debugging. That is why I am interested by
> > contract programming. I think Eiffel could be great to handle the main part
> > of the application, while C should be used for hardware communications
> > (which handle shaders and geometry). We already have a few thousand lines of
> > codes in C++, which should be ported to Eiffel, so before making the step, I
> > would like to have the point of view of people who really know the language
> > and the compiler. The is project is in its early stage but it should imply
> > up to five computer science engineer and take between 12 and 18 months.
> Thank you for this information.
> PS: I guess you are French ? True or wrong, do not hesitate to ring my
> phone below, if you want.
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