creating a text adventure, but with what programming language?

[ejstans]

No, just thinking pragmatically.

All the implementations I saw turn your Obj-J into regular javascript. Hence there's nothing it can actually do that can't be done in JS directly. Probably with a greater degree of efficiency too.

But Karlos, any Turing complete language can express another language. The original C++ compiler compiled into C code and yet it brought something new to the table, no? Hrm, right, there are plenty of C coders who disagree with that ("C can do OO just swell thank you, but OO is shite anyways")

Well then, let's try a different example! In the end, compiled languages usually come out in the form of cryptic assembly code, and certainly everyone can agree that being able to write in a high-level language is a welcome improvm....Oh right...This is the Amiga forum wherein this very thread there is talk of writing a text adventure in assembly...

Hmmm, what was my point again? :lol:

[ejstans]

Expressing C++ generics in C, without some hideous macro orgy (let's not forget, the preprocessor is not actually C) might test that theory in practise.

Comeau, arguably the most standard-compliant C++ compiler (even supports the hideous export keyword), carries on the tradition of Stroustrup's original and compiles into C rather than assembly, so the theory has definitely been tested in practice already But I don't see why you'd need macros to compile C++ generics into C? By the way, the preprocessor is (however unfortunate) very much part of C/C++. Though wouldn't I love if it were deprecated and a proper module system put in place instead...