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8445: [MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals
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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:03:34 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Bruce Mitchener, Jr.:]
[Info on how the Cold core addresses many of our needs snipped.]
>I have a number of topics relating to some of this that I want to bring up
>on here in the future, but I really need to finish digging myself out from
>underneath a big pile at work.
Please do, if you can. Input from someone that has been working at the
heart of these things for a while should be quite valuable.
The Cold language is Lisp-like, isn't it? (It's been a while since I
looked!) How hard would it be to add another style of language? How
efficient is the inner interpreter? Is it byte-code? Is it strongly
or weakly typed, or somewhere in the middle? Can strings be parsed and
compiled at run-time to produce new code?
I know, I should just go read the docs, but having some of the answers
here will likely help the stream of discussion in MUD-Dev be easier to
follow. And yes, I'm lazy!
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Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA