[casual_games] What's a good language?

[Lionel Barret De Nazaris]

Well, for a web site, CSS is mandatory. 

I am quite wary of the AJAX hype, but knowing javascript is always good.
It is a modern language quite different than the class based java & c++.
It is based on a different paradigm (prototype). Beside it is very
useful to enhance one's website (without even thinking about AJAX). 

Another pick would be python (my personal fav), this one is a
shapeshifter : you can do OOP if you want, functional, etc...
it Looks almost bland at first sight, but after a while, you realize it
is hiding a lot of cool stuff (generator, decorator, etc.). It does have
have a lot of web creation/management modules (web.py, etc...).

I looked at your site, and i am quite surprised : the blinking stuff is
quite annoying and i thought it was really a bad idea nowadays to put
something blinking on a web site. Do you feel it adds something
sales-wise ? maybe the statement blink=bad is limited to a demographic,
I wonder.
L.

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:20 -0500, Donald Bahlman wrote:
> Hi all.
>  
> I do so enjoy this group.
>  
> I have a (maybe not so) simple question to ask.  I am in the process
> of redesigning my website.  As I am a HTML and Java kind of guy, I
> have realized that it may be time to expand into another language so
> we can streamline and do more cool stuff on our site.  (I'd like to
> kill two birds with one stone: 1) Learn a new language myself, and 2)
> Rollout the new site with that language.)  Right now our focus is
> primarily based on the download model.  And it seems we are evolving
> into more of a portal site as well.
>  
> So, what would you guys recommend? PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl, AJAX, etc.?
> or stay with HTML?
>  
> And what do you guys find useful, fast and flexible on your sites?
>  
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks everyone!
>  
> Donald Bahlman, CEO/Founder
> xBlitz Entertainment
>  
> www.xblitz.com
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