[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Python?

[Jason Dorje Short <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> There are 2 kinds of C developers:
> - those that don't know OO methodologies
> - those that do, but are using C on a particular legacy project
It is easy to follow OO methodologies in C; in fact most gravitate 
toward this normally.  We do this in Freeciv: just look at map_get_tile 
(although we don't hide the map struct like we should).  C doesn't 
support advanced OO features like polymorphism or inheritance - I don't 
miss these much.
What I do miss from C are features of functional languages.  What I miss 
most often is tuples [1].  Less often I will miss more complex features. 
 Of course, Python has many of these features.
[1] Compare:
      {
        int nat_x, nat_y;
        map_to_native_pos(&nat_x, &nat_y, map_x, map_y);
        return native_pos_to_index(nat_x, nat_y);
      }
    to
      {
        return native_pos_to_index(map_to_native_pos(map_x, map_y));
      }

jason