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lemonpieman

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What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« on: October 05, 2009, 05:02:54 am »

Just wondering.
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kiffer.geo

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Re: What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 05:18:13 am »

C++

I remember something said once about early dwarf fortress versions being written in C (might have been Slaves to Armok 1)
Any way... Pretty sure it's C++ now
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lemonpieman

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Re: What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 05:21:50 am »

Alright, thanks. But is there any way you can verify that? Because you sound a little unsure.
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Re: What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 05:23:11 am »

Alright, thanks. But is there any way you can verify that? Because you sound a little unsure.

If you check out Dwarf Talk (2 or 1, not sure) Toady sez that at first DF was written in C and then rewritten in C++
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Re: What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 11:51:11 am »

Alright, thanks. But is there any way you can verify that? Because you sound a little unsure.

If you check out Dwarf Talk (2 or 1, not sure) Toady sez that at first DF was written in C and then rewritten in C++

Yep, that's it.  C then rewritten in C++.
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Re: What Language is Dwarf Fortress programmed in?
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 07:20:35 am »

nm, getting my threads mixed up...  :P
« Last Edit: October 06, 2009, 07:24:23 am by Andir »
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