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From: "Adam J. Thornton" <adam@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:12:43 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:54:42PM -0400, ApplePiMan@aol.com wrote:
> How very true. =) We *do* have a rather elite committee working on this 
> one, however (at least when compared with your average design committee). 
> Maybe we can buck the odds...

But, hey, let's be aware of it.  We don't want an ALGOL-68 here (yeah, I
was a historian of computing).

Be fascist.  Keep the core lean.

If you think MAYBE it might be doable as a module, implement it as a
module.  Let's try to keep the core as minimalist--and fast--as possible,
while still doing what it needs to do.  What would that be?  I dunno.
Let's discuss it.

Adam
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