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[Armok]

C(and C++) is the driving equivilent of the autobahn with no guardrails through the alps... It's fast, and if you want to skip the switchbacks by going straight down the mountain, that's your perogative. 

To complete the metaphor, python is a monorail, and assembly is the space shuttle.

[Alexhans]

and Armok is a curved universe... You just CANT get away from him...

[Hippoman]

I turn alotta things different from what the started as.... 

[Puck]

Quod erat demonstrandum.

[Puzzlemaker]

Why is this topic still alive!?  Someone put it out of it's misery, preferably with a gun.

[Lord Dakoth]

Why is this topic still alive!?  Someone put it out of it's misery, preferably with a gun.

How about a flamethrower... 
(see avatar)

[Armok]

NOOOOOOOOOOOooooo!!
*Dramatic sad music*
No, thread, don't leve me! *sob* Wha- waht have I dont to deserve this?!? I SHALL AVNEGE THEE!!! 

[Lord Dakoth]

I'll never let go, Jack! I promise!

[Outcast Orange]

Does anybody know if DF uses Curses?
Or is his screen handling library custom made?

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

C(and C++) is the driving equivilent of the autobahn with no guardrails through the alps... It's fast, and if you want to skip the switchbacks by going straight down the mountain, that's your perogative. 

To complete the metaphor, python is a monorail, and assembly is the space shuttle.

Perl is car then?
Many way to write, and can get ugly someMANYtimes.

[Deon]

Why is this topic still alive!?  Someone put it out of it's misery, preferably with a gun.

Because you prolong its living by posting here.

About all the comparisons, this community must prefer Cpp, because noone here likes rails and every thread is easily derailed, thus you want no guardrails for sure.

I must say, almost every programming language is an "autobahn without guardrails" if you don't know what're you doing or you don't have a patience to design the features. It's called "shitcode" in Russia, it's an almost official word for a shitty code which could be made much better/easier/different.

[Dasleah]

Does anybody know if DF uses Curses?
Or is his screen handling library custom made?

Custom-made OpenGL-based rendering engine. Doesn't have a thing to do with Curses other than the obviously emulated appearance.

[Hippoman]

Whats curses?

[Alexhans]

Curses is a library wich allows you to control a lot of text functions.  It comes from "cursor optimization" or something like that.

With bare C++, you don't have a function to, for instance, write a character in a determinate x,y position but with PDcurses you do have it and many others.

Being able to just locate the cursor wherever you want comes extremely handy for roguelikes. 

Extra information:  Pascal already comes with a gotoxy function.

ncurses is supposed to be platform independent or something.

[Sizik]

Would Java be one of these?