Comments on: Objectionable C http://johnzeitler.com/2010/01/04/objectionable-c/ If you think I made a good point, you misunderstood. Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Slipgate http://johnzeitler.com/2010/01/04/objectionable-c/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Slipgate Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:18:07 +0000 http://johnzeitler.com/?p=723#comment-380 I'm not going to comment further when I don't know for sure, but I remember hearing it was in Objective-C and that it was written to be "portable" - i.e. just compile it for each environment other than little interface things on the front end (for example, Dave Taylor, later of crack dot com, did the "official" unix/linux porting of the day). Bruce Lewis, who developed GLDoom later on, pointed out that the code WAS very portable and designed to be easy to recompile in a variety of environments, but that he'd had to sort of rearrange some of it because while it had been designed to be portable, it hadn't been designed with the idea of multiple renderers in mind, so he ended up rearranging some renderer code out from being "in" the other code to being elsewhere in order to be able to have different rendering modules that would apply across the game. (I'm explicating incredibly brief comments I'm half-remembering to their logical conclusion.) I’m not going to comment further when I don’t know for sure, but I remember hearing it was in Objective-C and that it was written to be “portable” – i.e. just compile it for each environment other than little interface things on the front end (for example, Dave Taylor, later of crack dot com, did the “official” unix/linux porting of the day).

Bruce Lewis, who developed GLDoom later on, pointed out that the code WAS very portable and designed to be easy to recompile in a variety of environments, but that he’d had to sort of rearrange some of it because while it had been designed to be portable, it hadn’t been designed with the idea of multiple renderers in mind, so he ended up rearranging some renderer code out from being “in” the other code to being elsewhere in order to be able to have different rendering modules that would apply across the game. (I’m explicating incredibly brief comments I’m half-remembering to their logical conclusion.)

]]> By: John http://johnzeitler.com/2010/01/04/objectionable-c/comment-page-1/#comment-375 John Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:26:24 +0000 http://johnzeitler.com/?p=723#comment-375 I was curious about that... the first version of the Doom engine was programmed on NeXT machines (which were where Obj-C debuted) but it was later ported to straight-up C when time came for the DOS release. Hm. Imagine how much different things would have been if the DOS release had been infeasible. I certainly wouldn't have minded a NeXTBox back in the day... I was curious about that… the first version of the Doom engine was programmed on NeXT machines (which were where Obj-C debuted) but it was later ported to straight-up C when time came for the DOS release.

Hm. Imagine how much different things would have been if the DOS release had been infeasible. I certainly wouldn’t have minded a NeXTBox back in the day…

]]> By: Slipgate http://johnzeitler.com/2010/01/04/objectionable-c/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Slipgate Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:20:28 +0000 http://johnzeitler.com/?p=723#comment-374 If I remember right DOOM was programmed in Objective-C. If I remember right DOOM was programmed in Objective-C.

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