To: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Quake vs. Demos
Message-ID: <19970603.150613.7111.4.fwec@juno.com>
References: <199706011614 DOT LAA32453 AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu> <19970601 DOT 150537 DOT 6967 DOT 2 DOT fwec AT juno DOT com>
	<33937bdd DOT 5907369 AT news DOT nol DOT net>
From: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 15:06:09 EDT
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 02:09:39 GMT lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie
McCullough) writes:
>>Of course doom was written in objective C, an object oriented 
>language
>>based off of simula 67 instead of smalltalk as in C++.  (CMIIW)
>>And doom is faster'n greased lightning.
>>
>>fwec AT juno DOT com
>
>What are you smokin?  Doom was not programmed in Objective C.  Quake C
>is however suposed to be a little like Objective C because Carmack
>likes to use it on his Nextstep (or however the hell its capitalized).
>Quake C is object oriented from the examples I've seen.  But Objective
>C for Doom.  No.  I think not.  Besides Watcom (you know DOS4GW and
>all that stuff) doesn't even come with an Objective C compiler does
>it?

Allow me to clarify.  Doom was originally written on a NeXT cube machine
using
the NeXT step operating system, with objective C, using the GNU platform.
 Then,
it was ported to Intel using Watcom C, and DOS4GW.  At least that's what
I read
in "More Tricks of the Game programming Gurus"


||                   fwec AT juno DOT com
||  "If you think there should be more of something, do it randomly. 
Kindness
||   can be just as contagious as violence and hate."
||
||                                  - origin unknown