On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 15:16:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 23:37 +0000, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >> On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:57:54 UTC, Dan Olson wrote: >> > "Kingsley" <kingsley. hendrickse@ gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > > In preparation for the London D meetup I have got the DTanks robot >> > > battle framework into the first alpha release state - good enough to >> > > use at the meetup anyway. >> > > >> > > https:// github.com/ masterthought/ dtanks In preparation for the London D meetup I have got the DTanks robotbattle framework into the first alpha release state - good enough touse at the meetup anyway. "Kingsley"writes: On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:57:54 UTC, Dan Olson wrote: > > And an excellent framework it is too. I hope to be able to put some > programming effort towards this to help make it even better. Actually I > am wondering if we can put the framework skeleton to a constructive > rather than destructive purpose. > >> > > --K >> > >> > DTanks looks cool! I am going to have to try it. Brings back >> > memories. >> > >> > I got hooked on the Apple ][ version ( >> > back in the 80's and started a version for the Amiga called "Tonks" but >> > it never got off the drawing board. I've always loved this game >> > concept. Even did a version to run each tank on a node of an Intel >> > Hypercube as a school project. DTanks looks cool! I am going to have to try it. Brings backmemories.I got hooked on the Apple ][ version ( http://corewar.co.uk/robotwar/ back in the 80's and started a version for the Amiga called "Tonks" butit never got off the drawing board. I've always loved this gameconcept. Even did a version to run each tank on a node of an IntelHypercube as a school project. >> >> Cool - feel free to give me any feedback. At the London D programmers meetup we had a tank tournament which was great fun. Some of the guys who came had not done D before - they were Scala / Java guys - but really enjoyed playing with D by way of the tanks game. Cool - feel free to give me any feedback. At the London D programmers meetup we had a tank tournament which was great fun. Some of the guys who came had not done D before - they were Scala / Java guys - but really enjoyed playing with D by way of the tanks game. > > Great fun was had by all there. Thanks to Kingsley for organizing > this, and perhaps more importantly, getting the framework together. > > An interesting point was made by some there: this looks very like Java > coding. Laeeth and I both agreed, saying that we felt Kingsley > background in Java was being reflected a little in the look and feel > of the D code, that if a C++ programmer had written it most likely the > code would have had a C++ feel to it. Much of this is about spacing, > identifier structure and things like that – relatively trivial stuff > in the main. The question us then is this fine ( that D code can have a > Java or C++ feel) or should there always be a D feel to all D code? > >> There should be a video of the tournament emerging at some point from SkillsMatter who sponsor the meetup as they filmed it. > > The video may not reflect quite as much of the fun that was had! On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 23:37 +0000, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:And an excellent framework it is too. I hope to be able to put someprogramming effort towards this to help make it even better. Actually Iam wondering if we can put the framework skeleton to a constructiverather than destructive purpose.Great fun was had by all there. Thanks to Kingsley for organizingthis, and perhaps more importantly, getting the framework together.An interesting point was made by some there: this looks very like Javacoding. Laeeth and I both agreed, saying that we felt Kingsleybackground in Java was being reflected a little in the look and feelof the D code, that if a C++ programmer had written it most likely thecode would have had a C++ feel to it. Much of this is about spacing,identifier structure and things like that – relatively trivial stuffin the main. The question us then is this fine ( that D code can have aJava or C++ feel) or should there always be a D feel to all D code?The video may not reflect quite as much of the fun that was had! https:// skillsma tter.com/ skillscasts/ 6287-d- robot-tank- battle- tournament the fun starts at 16:48