"Daniel C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks to Levi on the other thread, I've started thinking about MUD
> programming again.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion for what language to write it in? "Weird"
> languages (Lisp, Erlang, OCaml) get bonus points, as there are already
> MUDs written in boring languages like C.
Here's one I doubt anyone else will mention: E. Look for it at
erights.org, which contains a great deal of information about why E is
cool. It was initially designed to implement a MUD-like system, so
it's definitely worth giving serious consideration.
Also, there is a language called Termite that is built upon Gambit
Scheme. It essentially adds the Erlang model of communicating
sequential processes to Scheme. There's a similar system (though with
heavier-weight concurrency) built on Common Lisp called ErLisp.
Erlang would be an interesting choice as well, but I'm not sure that
it's quite as well suited as some other languages. A MUD is
essentially a simulation, and simulations tend to be very stateful.
Mostly-pure functional languages like Erlang can be awkward with
state-handling, but there may well be a fairly natural way of doing
simulations with it. It does have a cool database system called
Mnesia that might come in handy, especially if you do a distributed
system.
I think Smalltalk would be a good fit too, since it's very suited to
object oriented simulations. Simulations were the birthplace of
object-oriented programming, and object oriented modeling really seems
to fit simulation well.
Any of the above would be quite interesting, in my opinion; take a
look at them and let me know if you think so, too.
--Levi
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