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This is something I've been aware of for a while but I've been waiting for some kind of public announcement to talk about it.

KPL is a new beginners programming language that was originally targeted towards kids (Kids Programming Language), though they are finding that its not just kids that are interested. The language has very nice encapsulation for sprite based graphics to allow simple 2d games to be written with a lot less code and runs in an IDE which is quite similar to Visual studio.

Channel 9 has a new KPL video that walks through the product and shows some demo code.

So why is this on The ZBuffer? Because as you will see around 20:00 into the video KPL v2.0 (currently in beta) encapsulates 3d graphics using Managed DirectX to make 3d programming far simpler. Before you all start telling me how this *must* be slow, its really not and anyway the purpose of this language is about ease of use for beginners, not for creating 300fps bump mapped MMORPG's. There's a few screenshots in the KPL forums (though they appear to be suffering from some jpg compression issues).

Updated 3/4/2006 6:30:00 PM by Zman