Elysian Shadows

Everybody said assembly would die. It hasn't. Everybody said C would die. It hasn't. Until your CPUs start executing Java natively (never), shit isn't going to happen. As a matter of fact, as languages like AnyoneCanProgramScript start allowing less and less educated and talented people to write co...

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Looks like they're finally doing it.

Well bugger me, I am able to upload a video to youtube of ANY length!. Also, check my first post, I am planning on having 4096bit integer support! It's possibly going to be the first EVER programming language to support a 4096bit (signed and unsigned) integer (but i'm not promising this...), I have...

It compiles fine for me with both Clang and g++. What compiler are you using?

Also, using an enum to define integer constants is ugly. It hides the intent of the programmer. Also, it seems to be what's confusing your compiler. It seems like the compiler can't tell that the enum value is an integer.

If you're interested in using Common Lisp for AI, you might want to take a look at Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp.

http://norvig.com/paip.html

Man, this is turning out to be a bad month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

So apparently I'm the only Emacs user here.

Man, you guys are missing out

Like I said, I think I have the whole deck idea down, I just want to know some good ways to store the data of cards. The data would be static except for negative effects from gameplay, so I'm thinking of making some sort of static card list and copying the data out of it to the actual "cards&q...

Calling malloc() and free() isn't especially cheap either. It always bothers me how people write C/C++ using malloc/free as the only memory handlers. If you want to get the best performance, you really have to use some sort of pool. Very, very true. Which is basically what the JVM's garbage collect...

Arguing that static compilation will not ever be completely replaced by dynamic compilation is like saying horse and cart will never be completely replaced by cars. It is technically true but despite what may have one time been seen as a neck-and-neck race, there is no competition and no debate abo...

Praise the GC all you want. All I know is that when I play 3D Java games it is *obvious* when the GC starts up. Plus, 7% of 600 cores? You're saying that's a small amount? LOL To collect 20GB of garbage per second? Yes. Calling malloc() and free() isn't especially cheap either. And have fun writing...

it's generally accepted in computer science that hand written assembly is almost always worse, and further, that it in fact we will reach a point where it cannot possibly be done better than machine optimised code. What you're arguing about is current generation technology. Anything that can be don...

avansc wrote:functional, Clojure (http://clojure.org/)

Nice to see I'm not the only one on these boards that has an interest in Clojure

VB.NET is very similar to C#. It mostly just differs in syntax (and a few little things, like automatic coercion of strings to numbers and vise versa). It is very different from VB6 and earlier. Anyway, switching from VB.NET to C# would just be an exercise in learning the annoying syntactic differen...

The usefulness of embedding a scripting language depends on which language you're using for your engine. For example, if you're using C or C++, then embedding a scripting language will give you the benefit of being able to describe game logic in a higher level language, as well as allowing you to ch...