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In article <1992Oct28.145313.20423@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>Andrew R. Southwick writes:
>>
>>> I've just started my quest to be a gaming programmer, and at age
>>> 15, I'm learning Think Pascal on the mac.
>>
>>        Pascal?  Pascal is a B&D language...  Why?
>>
>>        If you want to write games, then I would recommend getting either
>>an assembler or C.  Pascal does not have the low-level bit-twiddling capabil-
>>ities that either of these other languages do
>
>Please, none of this religious stuff.  There have been many games,
>for the Mac and other computers, written in Pascal.  Glider (the
>shareware version at least) was written with Think Pascal.
>
>--
>James Hague   
>exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

Diamonds (including the 2.0 commercial version) was also written in 
Pascal.  BTW, the Mac toolbox uses a Pascal interface.  Really any 
language will do the job.  The biggest challenge you'll face
will be learning the toolbox and of course coming up with a good idea
for a game.  Good luck!

Rodney Jacks
rjacks@austlcm.sps.mot.com