DCS was developped in...

[Martillo1]

Just curious. What language is used for the development of DCS? C, C++? If so, are there different executables compiled for different target machines? I mean if it was compiled with -march=native for each target or just a -march=generic, and the optimization used -O, -O2 or -Os.

 

If you have to kill me after telling me, I prefer to stay alive :D

 

P.S.: Sorry about typos in title.

Edited October 20, 2009 by Martillo1

[joey45]

The code is probaly in Russian anyway.

[EtherealN]

OMG joey, that's the most hilarious comment today. :D

 

+1 :D

[sinelnic]

If I'm not mistaken, there's no "C" in Russian, that character is pronounced S, and that's enough symbol for the sibilant sound.

 

So right now I realize it's completely impossible that DCS is programmed in C, or the aberration C++. C simply does not exist.

[EtherealN]

Well, there's no C in latin phonetics either. :P

 

C in languages using the latin alphabet will either be S, the same as the cyrillic C, or K, same as the cyrillic K. It will sometimes be a spelling curiosity because several germanic languages (like my own) have a weird phobia against double-consonanting K, replacing KK with CK. Cyrillic manages to dispense with a completely unecessary character.

 

Zamenhof had a point when he chose cyrillic. :P

 

Although the vast variation of spelling of my name on my Russian Federation work visas do indicate some other weirdness, like the decision of whether to use "ИО" or "Ю". But hey, they do have a C at least, and it's pronounced the same way as half of our C's. AND they have decided how it's to be pronounced instead of our inability to make a decision on what the heck the letter actually means. :D

Edited October 19, 2009 by EtherealN

[Martillo1]

I am pretty sure that instructions are the very well known old good ones :P

[c0ff]

ПРОГРАММА ДыЦыэС
НАЧАТЬ
   САМОЛЁТ
   ЛЕТЕТЬ
   БЫСТРО
   КРАСИВО
КОНЧИТЬ

[c0ff]

Sometimes, I think it is written in http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

[Martillo1]

if ( questionBeyondKnowledge == true )

cout << easyJokes << endln;

[Martillo1]

Sometimes, I think it is written in http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

:megalol:

[EtherealN]

ПРОГРАММА ДыЦыэС
НАЧАТЬ
   САМОЛЁТ
   ЛЕТЕТЬ
   БЫСТРО
   КРАСИВО
КОНЧИТЬ

 

See! Plenty of C in there! :D

[Martillo1]

What does "КОНЧИТЬ" mean? The google's translator is brain****ed at it :D

[Boberro]

It means end :P

[Karon]

ПРОГРАММА ДыЦыэС
НАЧАТЬ
   САМОЛЁТ
   ЛЕТЕТЬ
   БЫСТРО
   КРАСИВО
КОНЧИТЬ

 

It's Pascal! :megalol:

 

program ДыЦыэС
begin
   [..]
end

[Boberro]

Yees ^^

 

This would be explanation why LO\DCS is so slow :D

[Martillo1]

It's Pascal! :megalol:

 

program ДыЦыэС
begin
   [..]
end

Pascal!!! Is ED using Pascal to develop DCS? I loved TurboPascal.

[HellMutt]

It's probably written in C++. I remember seeing a job opening on the Eagle Dynamics website for an experienced C++ programmer. That was some years ago (when they were working on Flaming Cliffs).

[Martillo1]

It's probably written in C++. I remember seeing a job opening on the Eagle Dynamics website for an experienced C++ programmer. That was some years ago (when they were working on Flaming Cliffs).

I think so, that is why I have asked about the optimizations and architecture(s) used in the compilation. For people who have modern microprocessors means giving us an edge over the generic compilation at no cost.

[Fudd]

The code is probaly in Russian anyway.

 

:doh:

[ZaltysZ]

Well, there's no C in latin phonetics either. :P

 

C in languages using the latin alphabet will either be S, the same as the cyrillic C, or K, same as the cyrillic K.

 

In Lithuanian, Latin "C" sounds "ts" (IPA), the same as "Ц" (Russian). For example: "Lemon" in Lithuanian is "Citrina", which is pronounced as "ts ɪ t r ɪ n ɐ" (IPA). :)

[Zembla]

Well, there's no C in latin phonetics either. :P

 

C in languages using the latin alphabet will either be S, the same as the cyrillic C, or K, same as the cyrillic K.

 

You mean the Greek alphabet I take it? Latin had words like centauri, Gallico etc. So they did have a C.

 

Greek alphabet has a Gamma that's often considered to be there C yes. And similarly, their C is an S. Or, so I recall :)

 

-Z

[EtherealN]

That's a point, but isn't Lithuanian slavic? Though even then my statement isn't entirely factual - I should have just kept to the phonetics.

[EtherealN]

You mean the Greek alphabet I take it? Latin had words like centauri, Gallico etc. So they did have a C.

 

Greek alphabet has a Gamma that's often considered to be there C yes. And similarly, their C is an S. Or, so I recall :)

 

-Z

 

The greek alphabet is a cyrillic alphabet. I did NOT mean the greek alphabet. I meant exactly what I wrote, though as Zaltysz pointed out there is some factual inaccuracy.

 

Latin has words like "centauri", yes. (Although to be precise "centauri" isn't the word itself, it's a specific form of the word "centaur". :P ) How do you pronounce those? Either "sentauri" or "kentauri". There is no specific "c" sound phonetically, which is my entire point. The alphabet has a "c", but there is no such thing as the sound "c", and the letter "c" in the alphabet does not have a specific singular sound assigned to it but rather is highly dependent on circumstances. As an example, let's take the word "circumstances" that I used just there: how do you pronounce it?

 

Kirkumstankes?

Sirsumstanses?

or

Sirkumstanses?

 

That right there is my point: latin phonetics do not have a distinct "c", since the letter can mean widely different sounds. The russian "C" however does mean a very specific thing phonetically.

 

If you want further examples of weirdness we can take the letters W and V, which (excepting german) are phonetically pretty much the same in most languages that use latin script. (Though the german hilarity of "f" and "v" being very similar phonetically is another thing.) Another "pair" would be K and Q. So we have a mishmash of some letters that can mean several sounds, and other letters that mean the same sounds as other letters. And that's not even beginning to touch on the confusion of letters changing meaning depending on their neighbors and composite sounds created with several letters (like "ch"), or pairs of letters used to change the pronounciation of a preceding letter - like double-consonants changing the pronounciation of a preceding vowel.

 

Yes, I'm a nerd. :P

Edited October 20, 2009 by EtherealN

[ZaltysZ]

That's a point, but isn't Lithuanian slavic?

 

No, Lithuanian is Baltic language (together with Latvian) and Russian is Slavic. However both groups belong Balto-slavic branch of Indo-European languages, so Lithuanian has more similarities with Russian than with German or English.

[EtherealN]

Ah, that clarifies it, thanks. :)

 

I always understood Estonian as Ugric and Latvian and Lithuanian as slavic. My bad - I never picked up the distinction of a specific Baltic language group.