Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Bill Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Bill Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Being able to do things like this is not what makes a language great.
>>>> In fact I am not sure what makes most languages great. It seems to me
>>>> that most languages should have been a C++ library or a LISP library
>>>> instead -- all other differences are primarily syntactical in nature
>>>> and thus not very interesting as far as I am concerned.
>
> An example of a Ruby DSL, in this case an assembler for Common
> Intermediate Language bytecode:
>
>  http://www.iunknown.com/2005/12/refining-the-ru.html
>
>   require 'RbDynamicMethod'
>
>   RbDynamicMethod::create_ruby_method('say_hello') do
>     include  'System, System.Collections'
>     ldstr    'Hello, World, int = {0}, double = {1}'
>     ldc_i4   42
>     box      'Int32'
>     ldc_r8   3.141592654
>     box      'Double'
>     call     'static Console.WriteLine(String,Object,Object)'
>     br_s     'end_of_method'
>     ldstr    'Goodbye, World'
>     call     'static Console.WriteLine(String)'
>     label    'end_of_method'
>     ldc_i4_4
>     ret
>   end

Compare such VM design to the simplicity of a LISP interpreter. LISP
is not just the grandfather of all dynamic languages, it is the most
basic and most powerful of the bunch.

C++ is similarly basic and powerful in the "static type checking"
domain. In fact it is C++ that introduced the concept to begin with,
only later it was adopted by C.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode
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