gameprogrdr

Re:Photos from YC (W09) Demo Day on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @06:28PM (#522454)

This is awesome! Will there be a video somewhere of the YC Demo Day?

Ask YC: Anyone seen the Aardvark'd movie with Paul Graham?

Posted by gameprogrdr on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:58PM
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Hey guys,has anyone seen this:http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/I saw PG appears in there.Is it good?There's an awesome quote by PG in this:"There's this custom among programmers of being nice, right, just like there's this custom among Wall Street people of seeming like a dick" :-)

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Ask YC: Game programming in Lisp - is it possible?

Posted by gameprogrdr on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:34AM
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Dear HN,I have been programming small games in Java for the past 3 years or so and would like to expand my horizons by learning functional programming.Is it possible to make games using something like Lisp (or another functional language)? Would there be any benefits as opposed to OOP?For instance: say I want to make a pacman game. In java, you just have a bunch of objects that keep their state...

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