Re: New game (maybe)
> Yes, indeedy, I'd be interested in it. I love business/management games, and > there isn't really a decent stocks and shares one on the SAM (never mind the > Speccy). I used to have one on the Acorn Electron that was great fun, but > that was many years ago *sniff*. And hard luck having to do Modula-2 - I had Agree - any new game for the SAM is a Good Thing. > to do it as well, and it's completely f*cking useless, employers don't want > to know you if you can't code in C/C++. Be thankful you aren't my younger > brother, who has to learn Cobol this year in college!!! That will come in > damn useful after the year 2000, I don't think. Disagree - employers don't care less if you know how to code in C or Smalltak or COBOL or whatever as long as you know the principles of programming - preferably OO. In that respect Modula-2 (and Smalltak and Ada95) are one of the better. Learning OO from C++ is like learning to drive from a blind person (appologies to all blind persons reading this). -Frode > > > > > -- > ** > Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website - http://www.purple.dircon.co.uk > IRC - SparkY or SparkYY on #TheLocal or #SAM-Community > ** > > > >
Re: New game (maybe)
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:52:01 +0100, Gavin Smith said: > And hard luck having to do Modula-2 - I had > to do it as well, and it's completely f*cking useless, employers don't want > to know you if you can't code in C/C++. Be thankful you aren't my younger > brother, who has to learn Cobol this year in college!!! That will come in > damn useful after the year 2000, I don't think. A few of our lecturers used to set practicals in Modula-2 [the others use more obscure ones like Haskell and Caml], but about three years ago they switched to C++ (yuk, give me plain C any day). This year, however, they seem to have ditched C++ and gone on to Oberon (which looks remarkably like Modula-2, since we are not using the full development environment). At least the compilers are not as flakey as the old SunOS Modula-2 one. As for COBOL, well it's a bit late but I'd bet COBOL programmers are in high demand right now to sort out all the legacy code for the millennium. imc
Re: New game (maybe)
> > Would anybody be interested in a game for the SAM (possibly even the > > Speccy) called "Palmyra"? > > Yes, indeedy, I'd be interested in it. I love business/management games, and > there isn't really a decent stocks and shares one on the SAM (never mind the > Speccy). I used to have one on the Acorn Electron that was great fun, but > that was many years ago *sniff*. Malcolm has also e-mailed me, so I've decided to give it a go - probably won't be around until Easter / Summer however. > And hard luck having to do Modula-2 - I had > to do it as well, and it's completely f*cking useless, employers don't want I agree, however, I've been taught it for two years and as my C++ isn't up to much so I figured I'd be better off working with Modula-2 for this project! Thanks for the support. Dave.
Re: New game (maybe)
Yeah! Do it, Dave. Mark __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
