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olliesaunders on Oct 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: If C++ is so bad, what should game develop...

Functional languages are good at math. Graphics involves a lot of math.

cpppppp on Oct 18, 2009 [–]

And if use functional languages you can write all that math yourself - if you use C++ you can use all the C libs that have been debugged and tested for 30years.

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