Warp wrote:

>   Coding a small game is always fun

This is the one thing I have never implemented. I'd like to do it at 
least once before I die...

>   OTOH one small problem with C++ is that there is no standard way of
> drawing any graphics.

...and this is the reason why. Almost *no* languages have the capability 
to easily draw graphics these days.

(Back when I was a kid, you could just say "plot 4, 7" and it would draw 
a dot there. Ah, I had no idea how good I had it!)

> And you should forget
> trying to program with the Windows API directly, unless you have *tons* of
> experience with it, or you want to die prematurely.

This made me actually laugh out loud. For real. Such a glowing 
recommendation of the Win32 API! :-D

(OTOH, I understand that the raw X Windows bindings are even harder... 
apparently... I guess that's why there's so many toolkits!)

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