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From: Brian Hook <brianhook@pyrogon.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:36:29 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13:01 -0500, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> I'm not sure why it's not more popular for MUDs, other than the
> fact that more people know C than Python, so they code in what
> they know...
Well, that also tends to fly against the conventional wisdom that
most MUD codebases are edited by non-programmers, hence the majority
of MUDs that run derivatives of 10+ year old codebases.
> Finding programmers that know it. I can't see any reason why a
> MUD written in Python (with a few of the appropriate modules in C)
> running on decent hardware couldn't be fast enough for a MUD.
Not just Python, but other equally likely candidates such as Ruby
(other than supposedly being Godawful slow, at least according to
the GCLS*), JavaScript (via SpiderMonkey embedding) and Lua (which
I'm using).
Brian
* Yes, benchmarks suck blah blah blah, but hey, it's what we have.
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