[haXe] Announcing: Two New Projects

[Daniel Cassidy]

On 2/26/07, Lee McColl Sylvester <lee at designrealm.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm glad you're happy :-)  I hate Python, too.  Any scripting language
> that requires that many dependencies deserves a boot out the door, as
> far as I'm concerned.

As unoriginal a complaint as it is, I just despise languages that try
to force certain behaviours on the programmer with the mistaken
assumption that this will improve the quality of the resulting code.
Just looking at Python code makes me irritable due to the constant
need to horizontally scroll, or strain my eyes trying to read >70
columns.

I suppose I could use a line wrapping editor, but then the structure
of the code is lost to wrapping, and the already questionable benefits
of forced indentation are moot.

I also don't like the rest of the syntax much :).

> I'm quite happy with it as it
> stands, though I may replace it entirely with my Allegro wrapper.
> Allegro is far cleaner, faster and more feature rich than SDL, and also
> seems to get updated more often.

I have an old fondness for Allegro, since it was the reason I learned
C, and featured heavily in my first serious programming excursions on
an >8bit platform. I'm a bit surprised to hear it described as cleaner
and faster than SDL, though, although I haven't looked at it in
probably four or five years now.

In fairness to SDL, it's more or less complete for its intended
purpose, so there's no real need for it to be updated except for
bugfixes :).

Cheers,
Dan C