I second this. Furthermore, if you want to get gasp-inducing cool stuff running on small embedded platforms, you need a language which can leverage existing multiplatform libraries and content. Namely C.
This is why the iPhone app count exploded after the SDK opened, they released C*! With OpenGL! Suddenly it's not a case of writing your own crappy library in Javobfuscript to handle parsing or physics, because there's one already! You don't have to reinvent the wheel with the world's slowest framebuffer, as there's direct access to the 3D chip! I can't believe companies are finding this hard to grasp! If you can get cool games running on your platform, you can get cool anything running!
I would buy a Palm Pre in a heartbeat, if only they'd hurry it up and release some C/OpenGL bindings. Well, that and release a 3G version so Australian stores can stock it.
* Okay, some might say mandatory Objective C may inspire you to gouge out both eyes with a rusty toasting fork and spend the rest of your life as a blind luddite hermit. Suck it up like a man, write some C/C++ glue code, then drink to forget
Looks like Senator Orrin Hatch is building himself quite a track record (originally with his bulletproof scheme of remotely destroying illegal filesharer's PCs, and the large amount of stolen JavaScript used on his webpage)
One can only wonder how long it will take for the suits at the RIAA to come to terms with how they can't shut down or neuter this "internet" thing, no matter how many potential customers they litigate to poverty.
Personally, I'm all for a messy, violent demise of the recording industry (and Orrin Hatch, just to be on the safe side), so that my children (and hopefully my children's children) will never have to be subjected to the absolute horror of hearing an 'Australian Idol' finalist sing ever again.
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I second this. Furthermore, if you want to get gasp-inducing cool stuff running on small embedded platforms, you need a language which can leverage existing multiplatform libraries and content. Namely C.
This is why the iPhone app count exploded after the SDK opened, they released C*! With OpenGL! Suddenly it's not a case of writing your own crappy library in Javobfuscript to handle parsing or physics, because there's one already! You don't have to reinvent the wheel with the world's slowest framebuffer, as there's direct access to the 3D chip! I can't believe companies are finding this hard to grasp! If you can get cool games running on your platform, you can get cool anything running!
I would buy a Palm Pre in a heartbeat, if only they'd hurry it up and release some C/OpenGL bindings. Well, that and release a 3G version so Australian stores can stock it.
* Okay, some might say mandatory Objective C may inspire you to gouge out both eyes with a rusty toasting fork and spend the rest of your life as a blind luddite hermit. Suck it up like a man, write some C/C++ glue code, then drink to forget
And yes, .the.product is (for the better part) playable under Linux with Wine's DX8 wrapper, if you don't mind the music being a tad out of sync.
Looks like Senator Orrin Hatch is building himself quite a track record (originally with his bulletproof scheme of remotely destroying illegal filesharer's PCs, and the large amount of stolen JavaScript used on his webpage) One can only wonder how long it will take for the suits at the RIAA to come to terms with how they can't shut down or neuter this "internet" thing, no matter how many potential customers they litigate to poverty. Personally, I'm all for a messy, violent demise of the recording industry (and Orrin Hatch, just to be on the safe side), so that my children (and hopefully my children's children) will never have to be subjected to the absolute horror of hearing an 'Australian Idol' finalist sing ever again.