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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:05:13 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
["Dr. Cat":]
> You know... It seems to me that a lot of the discussion on the list
> about languages sounds similar to what I imagine discussions would sound
> like about designing general-purpose programming languages. While that's
> educational, and many of the same issues arise in making efficient
> special-purpose languages... I think one point is being missed, in
> that 99.999% of the language design here seems to be aimed solely at
> an audience of programmers.
[Big snip of language patterns]
> You'd have a hard time sieving for prime numbers with this language...
> But making something fun isn't hard at all. :X)
Yup! You'd also have a hard time in doing anything in terms of creating
the world in it. That's why I think there should be (at least!) 2
languages in the MUD. One to create the world (softcoding), and one
for scripting. I have pretty firm ideas about what I want in a softcoding
language, but I'm quite interested in thoughts, like Dr. Cat's, as to
what should be in a scripting language.
--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/
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