![[18/10/2011] Minimap](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-4/18102011_minimap.png "[18/10/2011] Minimap")
![[18/10/2011] Manufacture](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-4/18102011_manufacture.png "[18/10/2011] Manufacture")
![[19/09/2011] Modfying a research project](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-4/19092011_researchproject.png "[19/09/2011] Modfying a research project")
![[19/09/2011] Research Complete window](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-4/19092011_researchcomplete.png "[19/09/2011] Research Complete window")
![[17/09/2011] Debriefing screen](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-4/17092011_debriefing.png "[17/09/2011] Debriefing screen")
![[19/06/2011] Inventory](http://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-3/19062011_inventory.png "[19/06/2011] Inventory")
So OpenXcom’s #includes were becoming a horrible nest of poor standards and slow compiling (to those not familiar with programming, pretend to follow along), so I decided to give them a good old spring-cleaning. In the summer.
The reward? Well now it crashes right on startup! With absolutely no code changes at all, aside from moving #includes around! Not even an error message. Or a pointer to a bothersome code line. Not even a useful call stack. It just up and dies horribly right in my face like I just opened Pandora’s Box.
Let this be e lesson to you kids. Programming is a harsh and cruel mistress that will backstab you everytime you face the other way. And you still keep going back to it. And like it.
July 10th, 2010 at 11:06 am
C sucks
July 10th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
You take that back! I’ll let you know Mr. C is quite the gentleman.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Quite the old gentleman. I won’t get into a holy cruzade here, but times have changed. You’d get more contributors (*wink* *wink*) with a more ‘productive’ language – say C#. Keeping tabs on pointers? What is this, 1989?
July 14th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Well I was born in 1989.
I don’t have a problem with any particular language, there’s just one reason why I picked C++ for this: deployment. Every other language has requirement this or framework that, which will scare away 90% of the playerbase, and in the end I’m doing this for the players.
C++ fulfills that since it’s as simple as running without any extra baggage or installation to screw up.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Frameworks are good. Do you really want to implement XML parsing or linked lists yourself?
C# would be a better choice IMHO
July 15th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
The C++ STL includes implementations for strings, linked lists, auto pointers, etc.
And just because it’s not built into the language doesn’t mean it’s inadequate. C++’s popularity means there’s plenty of third-party libraries out there for parsing XML, JSON, RegEx and whatever other fancy modern techs we have these days.