Naved A Surve pounded furiously on the keyboard:
> In message <199511010051.TAA25119@clark.net> you said:
> > Although CircleMUD has its good sides, it needs some basic things done first
> > before new features are added:
> You made some worthwhile suggestions towards the development of CircleMUD,
> however, ask yourself at what point do you continue to 'revise' an existing
> base and when do you just start from scratch? You were suggesting some
> changes in the fundamental ways in which a CircleMUD operates. take away
> its command interopreter, and data file formatting, and data structures, and
> all you have left are some sockets! (slight exagguration) If you are going
> to invest the effort to make such a widespread revision to CircleMUD you may
> as well do the job properly and write your mud from scratch.
Well, actually I was thinking of doing just that! =8-) (Yes,
I am daft.) Once I began to go over the source, I kept adding various
things to my to do list. After all was said and done, I realized that
I was thinking about a major undertaking and that it would probably be
prudent to just start from scratch; writing a MUD in C++ or Python
came to mind.
However, this is just recreational programming for me; since
this is something that I'm not doing for a client, I can get away with
just re-writing a portion of it. :) :) So, now the task comes down to
identifying what needs to done, to allocate tasks on a triage basis.
I've lately been thinking that the parser would involve too much work,
that it would make more sense to work on the various world, zone, and
object files. Using lex and yacc would go a long ways to make it
easier to create new zones.
(I can't help but wonder that the syntactic complexity of the
various files chases a lot of potential world builders away. It's not
exactly the most intuitive thing in the world. :)
Anyhoo, I'll keep you posted on my decision. This is not
something I'm going to rush into. No, really!
Mark
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