Interview of Hervé Lange
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I was watching an interview of Hervé Lange by RGCA.
Hervé Lange is a french developper who started on ORIC 1, he coded Fer & Flamme on Amstrad and BAT on Atari ST.
at the end of the interview he talk about Fuze (in French) :
[EDIT] - Fixed link
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@Electric-Dreams The link doesn't seem to be working
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@Electric-Dreams Fixed the link. Could you briefly summarise what he has to say please? Is it good? Bad? Thanks :)
That room in the screenshot there has some very cool wallpaper !
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Sorry for the bad link...
Hervé said that Fuze was one of the rare environment to focus on creativity. Without having to undergo long installation procedure many tools.
His 12-year-old daughter is learning Python at school, he does not agree because the installation of Python is already complicated ...
Fuze has all it takes to allow the creation of a game, as in the 80s when when you turned on a computer you could code right away.
Today, Hervé lives in Montreal, Canada.
The interview takes place in a retrogaming shop, RetroMTL.
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@Electric-Dreams Thanks for the summary! He's absolutely right. I wrote in my "introduce yourself" post that my son has been begging me to teach him game programming for years now, but that other environments we tried were too complicated.
It's interesting that he specifically calls out Python-- nominally that seems like a great intro language, but getting dependencies installed, using "virtualenv", and so forth, makes it feel clutzy to say the least. I still don't think it's a terrible "first language" by any means, but "pygame" is like nuclear physics compared to Fuze, and I don't think it's even any more powerful.
Whereas with Fuze... takes just a few minutes to download and install depending on bandwidth, is up and running in seconds, and you can make a basic game with just a few lines of code.
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Thanks for the summary. Exactly what I was after and also thanks for the comments. I personally have no experience with Python since computers were not an option when I was at school and I have never had the need since.
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@Martin Python is fine but after Basic, Pascal, BCPL, Fortran, C, Delphi, C#, PHP, SQL my head is full
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@pianofire My problem is that I used Smalltalk and Lisp and now I'm ruined forever.
