> I've been reading reports of people wanting to rewrite the codebase with > C++ or some other "niftier" programming language. Whilst I believe the > CircleMUD community should embrace a challenge and adopt new > functionallity, I believe that moving aware from C or a variant of C would > prove disasterous. Coding CircleMUDs IMHO is by far the easiest of all > the codebases, and actually flows quite logically. I fear what C++, > however brilliant it may be, might do to CircleMUD's newbie-friendly > image. One of the big advantages with OOP-languages is the way it's centered in logical thinking. That C++ isn't the easiest language to learn outright with all the tricky polymorphisms, stl containers and algorithms and a host of other nifty functionality is granted. But people who has not looked at C before, and are fairly new to programming, have, imho, an easier time picking up C++ than they have C. As to the newbie-friendly image of Circle that will, probably, not go away if there is a recode to C++. However, I'd be more concerned about a vast majority of people leaving if it was recoded in Java as that is one slooooow thing, plus I'm certain a great many of us shun the idea of not being able to control our own memory. :o) Anyway, just a few thoughts. -- Yours truly, Henrik Stuart (hstuart@geocities.com) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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