Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by choeger on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:24PM (#21036624)

There is still the STL, there are still templates and data structures have a very well-defined lifetime.

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by skrebbel on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:34PM (#21036699)

Isn't the STL mostly classes? How is that not OO?

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by gpderetta on Sunday September 22, 2019 @03:58PM (#21043558)

STL has nothing to do with OOP . In Alex Stepanov (the ST in STL) words "object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence"

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by choeger on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:41PM (#21037813)

Well, yes you have some objects in there. But it is rather an implementation detail. You don't use inheritance for instance.

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