Re: F# fsharp
Lionel Barret De Nazaris <[email protected]>
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Remind me of a very successful studio where devs did a lot of impressive stuff despite the "official" rules. And delivered each time. On 05/25/2010 12:05 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Lionel Barret De Nazaris > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Compiler& Parsers are indeed a good fit for functional languages. >> >> By the way, IIRC, you can mix F# and C#. >> >> So more experienced programmer can get the benefits of F# without waiting >> for the whole team to get it. >> > I wonder how the politics of that will shake out in practice. I can > definitely see other team members / leadership being afraid of the new > stuff that they don't understand, the potential production impact, > etc. I mean, if people can hand wave about how Lua is too much of a > bother, then they can hand wave about anything. I think in situations > like that, what works is if management has slacked off, and isn't > paying enough attention to apply Stop Energy to the problem. > http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy Then programmers will do > what they want. If they actually manage to solve real problems with > their newfangled language, then people will go oooh and aaah. It > gives them the authority / leverage to do more. As an example, I had > a friend of mine who was working a (non-game) job at Microsoft. His > manager sorta disappeared / got reshuffled, and so he started writing > everything he could in Python. Nobody noticed for 9 months. > > > Cheers, > Brandon Van Every > _______________________________________________ > Sweng-Gamedev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com > -- Best regards, Lionel Barret de Nazaris Gamr7 - CEO === Create bigger cities faster with Urban PAD <http://gamr7.com/g2009/urban_pad>. follow us : rss <http://gamr7.com/g2009/default/feed.rss>, twitter <http://twitter.com/Gamr7>, facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-PAD/124363971359> _______________________________________________ Sweng-Gamedev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com