On Apr 11, 12:08 pm, "Neil Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2:20 pm, Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9 apr 2008, at 03.01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > okay, I'm having this one problem with a text adventure game. It's > > > > kind of hard to explain, but I'll do my best. > > > > [code] > > > > > def prompt_kitchen(): > > > > global gold > > > > Python is not a suitable language for Text Adventure Development. > > > Ridiculous. > > Agreed. "Not suitable" is an exaggeration. However, designing and > implementing your own adventure game framework in Python is a total > waste of time.
That depends. > Don't do it excet for the sake of it. > > You can even claim one of several Python-based frameworks out of > mothballs as a starting point, if you want to use Python. > > > There are many good reasons why someone might want to use a general > > purpose language like Python to write a text adventure, > > Yes. > > > such as so > > they're not stuck with a quasi hack of a language if they have to do > > something that doesn't fit the framework anticipated by the language > > designer. > > That's not a reason, it's FUD. No, it's prudence. If I am writing a banal, been-done-a-million-times before, cookie- cutter text adventure, yes I'd just use a domain-specific language. If I am writing a unique game that does new things, sooner or later I'm going to want to do something the designer of the domain-specific language and framework didn't anticipate. And there is no uncertainty or doubt about this: when it comes to that, I don't want to be restrained by a narrow framework or domain-specific language, and I would want to be using Python, and it isn't even remotely close. The only question would be whether there's enough general purpose programming required that it would outweigh the extra work. Which, let's be honest, is not all that much for a text adventure. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
