[gameprogrammer] Re: Daydreaming, questioning....

  • From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:03:51 +0200

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, at 03:11:42, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
[...]
> To start out trying to do a new language that is worth doing takes
> either a huge amount of arrogance or an astonishing level of naiveté.
> Since I know that, I often wonder what I'm thinking to even consider
> doing.

Then again, if everyone actually capable of doing it properly come to the 
"sensible" conclusion that it's a bad idea to create Yet Another Language, who 
would actually create the development tools of the future...? :-)


> I guess the only other reason is because it will be fun and
> maybe it will actually be of use.

"Fun" is a pretty good reason, IMHO. Software that's actually developed to a 
useful state beats perfect designs and valid reasons, every time.


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