Re: C++ and lisp and Games
justinhj wrote:
The most serious problem with using lisp is that you won't be starting
with expert lisp programmers. There just aren't any waiting around for
game programming jobs. So you need to come up with a way to train them
to be lisp experts, that can write lisp code in a way that will run in
limited memory environments with slow processors.
Its a mistaken impression is that you have to be an expert Lisp programmer
to use Lisp. Lisp is no different that any other language, in that, to
write good programs you need really good/expert programmers. C++ game
programmers encounter the very same memory allocation issues that Lisp
programmers would encounter, the knowledge is transferable.
There are no slow processors and limited memory environments anymore.
Even if one undertook to write a new game, if it took 3 years to
do, processor speed would be 4x what it is now.
Wade
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