Re: [vassalengine-devel] New to Java + Eclipse, SVN & CVS

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Wojciech Meyer:
> >
> > It looks like we're going to have a mixture of C++ and Python.
> >
> 
> I can understand reasons, however..
> I will ask, why not to go for some O'Caml or even F# (mono
> implementation on Linux is fine).  I would like to see VASSAL being
> written in some cleaner language than C++ (and yet as efficient).
> Anyway, I quite liked C++ in past better than Java and I hope it's not a
> mistake.. If C++ project has some rigoruous coding standards and coding
> practices specified upfront (how to do things, what not to do, which
> subset of features we use etc.)  it makes C++ a bit nicer. (LLVM is the
> example on top of my head).

I have a particular objection against F#, namely that I don't want to
use a language tied to a company. I've had enough of that with Java.

Generally, I think it's a bad idea to adopt a language that none of the
core developers have ever used before. With C++ and Python, we have some
experience to draw on while the rest of us are learning.

-- 
J.