[ISUGameDev-annc] [Fwd: ATTN UGRADS: Lisp Jobs (fwd)]

[Chad A. <ae...@vr...>]

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard of.

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Subject: ATTN UGRADS: Lisp Jobs (fwd)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:03:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Vasant Honavar <ho...@cs...>
To: ug...@cs...

Here might be a job opportunity for those of you who know Lisp or Scheme
and are interested in developing interactive game software.

Vasant

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> From ai...@ux...  Sat Mar  8 17:35:30 2003
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> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 14:16:49 -0800
> From: Craig Reynolds <cw...@re...>
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> Subject: Job: Lisp powers Jak & Daxter at Naughty Dog
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> I got a reply suggesting I forward this to ai+...@cs...
> 
> Craig Reynolds
> http://www.red3d.com/cwr/
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Lisp powers Jak & Daxter at Naughty Dog
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:38:58 -0800
> From: Craig Reynolds <cw...@re...>
> Reply-To: cw...@re...
> To: the...@ai...
> 
> I had a surreal experience yesterday at the Game Developers Conference.
> The director of a successful software company was complaining about how 
> hard it was to find good Lisp programmers.
> 
> Stephen White, of Naughty Dog, Inc. spoke on "The Technology of Jak & 
> Daxter".  Naughty Dog (http://www.naughtydog.com/) is a game studio in 
> LA, known for its popular Crash Bandicoot series and now Jak & Daxter.
> 
> He also talked in glowing term of how the power of Lisp (well, Scheme, 
> well GOAL: Game Object Assembly Lisp) helped them create the complex 
> runtime code of a major commercial console game.  The text of a few of 
> his slides is included below.
> 
> (In Crash Bandicoot, they used a game engine written in C which they 
> scripted in GOOL, an earlier Lisp-like language.)
> 
> I thought this would be of general interest to TUS, and perhaps even a 
> job opportunity for someone.  Naughty Dog is hiring and they need Lisp 
> programmers.  Can anyone suggest other Lisp-friendly communities I 
> could send this to?
> 
> 
> 
> What is GOAL?
> * GOAL is our custom compiler based on Lisp (well, actually Scheme).
> * Practically all of the run-time code (approximately half a million 
>   lines of code) was written in GOAL.
> * Only the IOP code and a small amount of kernel code was written in C.
> 
> 
> GOAL Features
> * Object-oriented language.
> * Extremely simple syntax.
> * Powerful macro capability,
>   far superior to Cs preprocessor or C++s templates.
> * Listener
>   * Code can be executed live at a listener.
>   * Code can be compiled, downloaded,
>     and linked without interrupting gameplay.
>   * Data structures can be inspected or modified live.
>   * Rapid tuning and debugging.
> 
> 
>