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OS Independent Scotland Yard Released

Posted by Zonk on from the follow-the-crook-watson! dept.

DarkLaser writes "When's the last time you played Scotland Yard? A version called London Law, written by Paul Pelzl, is now in beta. Its updated status can be seen on the freshmeat information page. It is written in Python, and intended to be able to run on Linux, BSD, Mac, and Windows."

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  1. Python programmers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Please, don't play this game. It's not that Python is a bad language, it's just that its advocates are so... so...

    Look, do you really want to encourage them? Suppose this game becomes popular, then you're going to hear no end of "Oh yes, have you heard of London Law? It's written in Python. I don't see why everything can't be written in Python. Python's the best language in the world, I can't see what management has against it. It's much better than C and Java. I once wrote a web browser in Python, just a matter of importing mozilla, instantiating a browser object, and that's it, just two lines of code and you've got a whole web browser. I bet London Law is just three lines of code, that's how good Python is. I don't see why Linux isn't written in Python, I mean, it could just be three or four lines of code then, and it'd probably run faster. Of course, Microsoft could write XP in Python and it'd be much more reliable but they'll not because they're so anti-open source and..."

    I mean, these people make Gentoo fans and Terry Pratchett bores look like sane, rational, people you'd want to have at a party.