From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T06:20:57+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:56:47PM +0900, Lloyd Linklater 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.

VB.NET compiles to something called the "Common Intermediate Language", a
bit like Java's "bytecode" compilation.  The CIL is then JIT-compiled to
native code and executed by the CRE ("Common Runtime Engine").  The
process isn't stunningly fast, however -- C# runs only about as fast as
Java *before* Java undergoes days of optimization by its VM.

I seem to recall that VB (before the .NET days) used to be compiled to C
or C++, which was then compiled to native binary, however.

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