Why C language is preferred for computer graphics programs?

Answer 1

C is one of the powerful languages designed yet.even though C language is

superceeded by many new languages like c++,java,c# but the importance of c is still

unchallenged.

especially c is the ultimate choice where the performance is the ultimate criteria and

the resources are very scarce like your embedded systems.in those areas your code

should run fast and should be small.perhaps in those apllications C is the ultimate

choice.

even now when it comes to performance(speed of execution) nothing beats c not even

c++.c++ will unnecessarily create havoc with its oops features when we use it as a

system programming language.that is the reason why still c is unbeatable in the

system programming world and even the legends like linus tovarlds preferrde c to c++

for implementing Linux kernel. c will not die like any other language as some may die

due to competition.

comming to ur question why c is preferred for computer graphics and games?the

answer is simple because of its speed .for example u are playing a game where u need

to shoot with a machine gun the opponents.if u press the key on ur keyboard the ascii

code for that key should be generated and supplied to the routine that handles the

functionality of that key and shoot.But imagine what happens if ur gun fires after 2

secs or 3secs after pressing the shoot button.wont ur game become a boring task?

under such situations c scores over other languages as it is the language which can

produce the code that runs many a times faster than the code produced by any other

language.

I hope u got some idea why c is prefferd over other languages in graphics and games

phani Krishna (Mtech jntu)