a couple game programming questions

I have a couple questions:

1. Is there a better alternative to jMonkeyEngine for creating 3d java games? If so, what are its advantages? If not, is it better to use their supplied IDE or to use something like Netbeans/Eclipse?

2. This is far less important as I may never get around to it, but I'd like to someday make an old fashioned DOS game that would be playable on an extremely old PC. What language(s) would I need to use and what libraries are available for this sort of thing? Are there any good guides on the subject?

Any answers would be much appreciated.

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lamabdas were never standardized in C, it's a GCC extension

ID Software was "AAA" for its day

Doom 3 is in C++,  but most likely pre-STANDARD lambda support.

I highly doubt any AAA company keeps to standards, considering most of them just stick to one platform (epeciaslly console exclusives) they probably write tons of hardware non-portable optimizations and never go by what standards say anyway