From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T22:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On 7/16/07, Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com> wrote:
> > You're kidding right? WoW is written in C++ (Objective C for Mac which
> > is C++). Lua (another scripting language) is embedded and is used for
> > moding by Blizzard and the community. Games have to be fast and work
> > closely with hardware (like graphic cards). They are witten in the
> > lowest language you can hire. Right now, that's c/c++.
>
> Actually, for the record, any language that is actually compiled would
> qualify.  That would include Delphi / Pascal.  It would sort of include
> visual basic since, as I understand it, VB code is translated into C/C++
> and then compiled.

Some compiled languages are faster than others, depending on the
quality of the compiler and the information the language exposes to
it.

APL, an interpreted language, is probably much faster than C for most
of it's use cases (not sure though).


Aur