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Ren
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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject: Perl |
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Hey, i'm starting to get into the swing of programming again and i'm really enjoying using perl to do things. I like the way it's a language that makes my PC seem intelligent, rather than the useless idiot it usually is, heh.
Anyway, my favorite way to learn programming has always been going through other peoples code and finding out what they did and why. So my question is has anyone ever submitted a perl game that I could have a look at (preferably with source, although anything goes)? It would also be kind of helpful, if someone reads this actually programs in perl, if maybe someone could volunteer a tutorial, website or library that they thought was handy.
And before anyone feels the need to write this, i'm aware of the limits of perl as a programming language, and I know it wasn't really designed to do graphical things. But i'm ok with that, and i'm used to the limits of some programming languages. I've got some projects up here from way back that I wrote in Qbasic, and it doesn't come much more limited than that, heh. Although by all means discuss it, I am actually interested in informed opinions.
Anyway, thanks in advance, it's nice to be around again.
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PhyrFox
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: Re: Perl |
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| Shroomasta wrote: | Hey, i'm starting to get into the swing of programming again and i'm really enjoying using perl to do things. I like the way it's a language that makes my PC seem intelligent, rather than the useless idiot it usually is, heh.
Anyway, my favorite way to learn programming has always been going through other peoples code and finding out what they did and why. So my question is has anyone ever submitted a perl game that I could have a look at (preferably with source, although anything goes)? It would also be kind of helpful, if someone reads this actually programs in perl, if maybe someone could volunteer a tutorial, website or library that they thought was handy.
And before anyone feels the need to write this, i'm aware of the limits of perl as a programming language, and I know it wasn't really designed to do graphical things. But i'm ok with that, and i'm used to the limits of some programming languages. I've got some projects up here from way back that I wrote in Qbasic, and it doesn't come much more limited than that, heh. Although by all means discuss it, I am actually interested in informed opinions.
Anyway, thanks in advance, it's nice to be around again. |
It's actually not a bad language, but I'm not familiar with any extensions that allow for the type of interface you can use to implement a game (like OGL or SDL). That being said, one could easily implement a text-based game, since Perl is great with text-based interfaces. Or a CGI/Perl game that generates images on the fly, and makes IMAGEMAPs for the stuff you'd like to have the user interact with.
I think that's nearly the limit without somebody going out to making a new Perl module. If I'm wrong, I'd love to be directed to where such a library does exist.
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DeveloperX
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Perl |
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| PhyrFox wrote: | It's actually not a bad language, but I'm not familiar with any extensions that allow for the type of interface you can use to implement a game (like OGL or SDL). That being said, one could easily implement a text-based game, since Perl is great with text-based interfaces. Or a CGI/Perl game that generates images on the fly, and makes IMAGEMAPs for the stuff you'd like to have the user interact with.
I think that's nearly the limit without somebody going out to making a new Perl module. If I'm wrong, I'd love to be directed to where such a library does exist.
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After looking around, I read that SDL can be used from Perl.
a few places that might be of interest
http://sdl.perl.org/
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/3d_engine.html
Anyway, I don't do much in Perl these days, so I'm out of practice, but I thought that I might lookup a few things for you to get started.
Goodluck, and have fun. :)
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