I've been reading reports of people wanting to rewrite the codebase with C++ or some other "niftier" programming language. Whilst I believe the CircleMUD community should embrace a challenge and adopt new functionallity, I believe that moving aware from C or a variant of C would prove disasterous. Coding CircleMUDs IMHO is by far the easiest of all the codebases, and actually flows quite logically. I fear what C++, however brilliant it may be, might do to CircleMUD's newbie-friendly image. -C. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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