Nature of OT was Re: [GD-General] Re: C++ turing complete

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

At 08:41 PM 12/23/2001 -0500, Patrick M Doane wrote:
>This is getting off-topic, but this discussion has not been focused
>entirely on gaming, so...

Well, this is the one gamedevlists mailing list where OT is kinda hard to 
determine.  But we'll know it when we see it =)

GD-Algorithms, Linux, Windows, Design and Console all have very well 
defined charters, but GD-General is pretty much "Any discussion that might 
pertain to games but which doesn't fall under any of the other list 
charters".  In fact, this list doesn't need to be limited to programming 
only (the charter specifically uses the phrase "game development" instead 
of "game programming").

I think choice of programming language (and why) is very relevant to game 
development.  So long as the discussions don't become flamefests, I think 
we're cool.

I've been pleasantly surprised at the quality of discussion so far.  People 
can actually state why they don't like something (C++, Windows, whatever) 
without getting shouted down.

Brian, co-admin for gamedevlists-*