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14211: Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !

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From: Travis Casey <efindel@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:48:47 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tuesday, April 04, 2000, Powell, Warren wrote:

> That being said, it does appear that the competition may be aimed more at
> the high level languages where you dont have to declare data types for local
> use and operations like file i/o and memory management are already taken
> care of in external libraries and shorthand coding is encouraged. I would
> rather see the comp give a slightly larger file size for lower level
> languages or let us create an external library that has no bearing on the
> mud code size but handles more of the system specific code rather than mud
> stuff, and allow 1 decent sized header file for struct defs and readabilitys
> sake (or double the size of low level lang code to 32k).

Well, they do have a separate category for low-level languages, so
they have at least thought somewhat about the problem and are trying
to be fair.

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