21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
8:19 p.m.
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 18:59 +0000, james(a)jwm-art.net wrote:
I'm no gamer but even I know games can be have
been written in java. Minecraft springs to mind. A very interesting 3d block game.
The one famous for having almost artistically primitive graphics?
Funny, that :)
Don't get me wrong, I would *love* for there to be a safe[1], portable,
well-designed, widely-deployed language which were suitable for such
things, but unfortunately we're not there yet.
or: nobody ever got fired for going with C on Unix :)
or: I don't need a virtual machine, I have a real one, thanks
-dr
[1] Note Java is *not* a safe language. In a safe language it is e.g.
*impossible* to crash because of a null pointer dereference.