From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 20:22:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFE937B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.iprimus.com.au (smtp03.iprimus.com.au [210.50.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCA843F75 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:22:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au) Received: from smtp01.iprimus.net.au (210.50.30.70) by smtp03.iprimus.com.au (6.7.010) id 3E3E0A81000F9E1F for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:22:28 +1100 Received: from windows ([211.26.149.89]) by smtp01.iprimus.net.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:22:27 +1100 Message-ID: <00fe01c2cff2$9f9d0be0$59951ad3@windows> From: "James Buchanan" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Pierrick Brossin" , , References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net><00ae01c2cf56$7c461520$1400000a@nitrox><001e01c2cf5c$45252bc0$59951ad3@windows> <15941.20264.476573.622498@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:20:46 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Feb 2003 04:22:28.0082 (UTC) FILETIME=[DADE1D20:01C2CFF2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've been told that Python is a recognized bullet point for games > these days. The only LISP feature it's missing is macros, and it's got > a syntax that's more palatable to most people, and a very active > support community. That's true, and probably the argument of python being interpreted doesn't hold too much on gaming hardware anyway. It wouldn't hurt at all to add Python there. But of course a lot of previous work done in awful languages like Lisp should be read and comprehended to stay at the forefront of the discipline. Personally, I hate Lisp. ('Eeuuchhh) Ugly munterfrucker code if you ask me. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message