Thread: Empire AI in C#

I'd like to know if nv knows XML and SOAP. I hear that these are the best languages for web applications, infact after I learn C++ which will take some time yet, I plan to study C# and just as importantly XML.

In my opinion the question isn't C++, it's more C than anything. What I mean is that you have the definition of C, than you have C++,C#,Java, etc. All these lanuages are abstractions of C. Anyway C++ programmers do not solely depend on STL and the definition. Instead they use vendor libraries for graphics. I would think that the would invalidate any comparison of C++ with any other lanuages because most people think of C++ in terms of it's definition. This is not how it is being used though.

I'd like to know if nv knows XML and SOAP.

I know XML. It's not a language, but rather a standard to define
standards. It's a way of implementing a unified data transfer.

From the draft W3C specification: SOAP is a lightweight protocol
for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed
environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three
parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what
is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for
expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a
convention for representing remote procedure calls and
responses.

I was trying to say if you want to be a serious programmer you can't be doing Java or C#... Unless you're in webpage design.

hm... damn, I'm non-existent. I can't exist.

I agree with you that C++ is a better choice for most applications
that doesn't need to be cross-platform. But you will have to learn
that a 'serious' programmer is not someone who does what he
likes. A serious programmer should be able to do whatever his
employer likes. And that might well be VB, Java or maybe C#.

.NET has nothing, absolutly nothing to do with the net. It's just
a name. You CANNOT do webpages with .NET alone. You can
do it in ASP.NET, as well as you can make webpages in ASP
now. You can write C++.NET apps as well as you can write
C++ apps now. The .NET should make it easier, that's it.

And actually, for some occasions, Visual Basic is the tool that
gets the job done in half the time of a C++ programm.

So if a serious programmer has the option of doing his duty
in a week, or doing a load of overtime and maybe working
weekends for doing it in C++, do you really think he'd do it
in C++ ?

And what if you have no other choice ? What will the serious
programmer do if he has to create a stored procedure for the
corporations oracle database ? Quit his job ?

It's one thing to know what you like. But in reality, the best
allround tool might not be the best tool for a special job.
And serious people use the best tool for the job.

I used to play the game Conflict for hours on end aginst my dad, we once had a game go on fo 13 hours. Now a revamp of that game would be nice. It was a turn based strat, with a limited number of vehicles and ground types.

>Question: All versions of VB (and most BASIC languages) don't have pointers.


Question: What do you need pointers for ?

References in function parameters: ByRef keyword in VB
Linked List: Ready to use classes in VB
String manipulation: Ready to use classes in VB
Dynamic memory allocation: keyword redim can change arrays to any size dynamically

So for easy tasks that involve user interaction, VB can save
a lot of time. I hate it, but it has it's uses.

Well, actually, VB has the same support for pointers Java and C#
have. All Objects are managed via pointers. Consider this lines
and the New keyword:

Dim db as Database

Set db = new Database

Very valid VB and in fact the only way.
So in theory you could create anything that requires pointers
in VB, too. But normally, for a typical VB program, no complex
structures are required. There are lots of programs that never
use a list or tree or hash table. Those programs using these
constructs almost always require speed. And speed is a
critical drawback of VB. As a user-interface it's acceptable.
As a server or running applications without anything that's even
slower ( user, database... ) it's next to unusable when speed
is required.

From what I've heard about VB, it is a RAD language. Rapid Application Development.

VB.NET is a lot more powerful than VB6. It is an OOP language now but C# likely is better. The literature for these brand new languages is just comming out now.