this kind of game, in an odd way led me to python.
i played an LPMUD based game and made it to wizard level which open up letting me create stuff via LPC coding. i was also helping a good friend who was doing the same thing. at this point i had lots of C coding experience, and loved LPC, which was a copy of Pike, which i picked up on next. Pike and LPC were nearly identical and had a syntax very much like C. when i was exposed to Python (via some networking tools i found), the sensed the environment of Pike and Python to be very much alike. the syntax was different and i tried Python with only the need to learn a new syntax which i soon fell in love with, despite first thinking it was ugly. i still do some stuff in Pike and/or C where performance is needed (Pike arithmetic is much faster than Python, at least for big ints). see the bigsqrt program i am about to post over in Scripts & Snippets
i played an LPMUD based game and made it to wizard level which open up letting me create stuff via LPC coding. i was also helping a good friend who was doing the same thing. at this point i had lots of C coding experience, and loved LPC, which was a copy of Pike, which i picked up on next. Pike and LPC were nearly identical and had a syntax very much like C. when i was exposed to Python (via some networking tools i found), the sensed the environment of Pike and Python to be very much alike. the syntax was different and i tried Python with only the need to learn a new syntax which i soon fell in love with, despite first thinking it was ugly. i still do some stuff in Pike and/or C where performance is needed (Pike arithmetic is much faster than Python, at least for big ints). see the bigsqrt program i am about to post over in Scripts & Snippets
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What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.