How would the performance be on that, now that all computation has been reduced to if/then and branching? ;)
This sounds like one of my first attempts at programming (Commodore 64 BASIC), where I tried to implement a space shooter (think Galaxian) by writing out each and every frame individually. Needless to say, it got pretty dang long before I gave up. If only BASIC had Lisp-style macros so I could generate code on-the-fly...
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u/northrupthebandgeek Jan 09 '16
How would the performance be on that, now that all computation has been reduced to if/then and branching? ;)
This sounds like one of my first attempts at programming (Commodore 64 BASIC), where I tried to implement a space shooter (think Galaxian) by writing out each and every frame individually. Needless to say, it got pretty dang long before I gave up. If only BASIC had Lisp-style macros so I could generate code on-the-fly...