From: Norman V. <nh...@ca...> - 2001-09-28 20:10:38
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Andy Ross writes: > >Actually, JNI isn't nearly as scary as it's made out to be. Write a >really tiny wrapper around the plib joystick stuff, and poof: portable >input devices. OK, so it's not 100% Pure Java(tm) anymore, but who >cares? IMHO Python wrappers are great ! Take you choice C(++) or Java makes no difference and when you are done you have a customized high level object oriented language that still lets you get down and dirty in the underlaying language if and when you have to. FWIW - Using a higher level language lets you to spend more time on the algorithms < ie better programs > instead of just writing code :-) Now I'll bet everybody was just waiting for me to say that :-) Cheers Norman |