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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 14 May 97 17:50:50 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00477.html">9705150345.805t#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>>, on 05/15/97
at 08:26 AM, cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray) said:
>[Chris L:]
>:C has adavantages in having a very small clean syntax. There's a lot
>:to be said for that. Like ColdC I try to be very C-like in my
>:language, except that its type-less, pointer-less, has no concept of a
>:process environment, and doesn't really have a stack outside of the
>:execution of an individual method (everything is a message).
>Erf! I can't let that go by! C has a small clean syntax??? C has a
>horrible syntax, and when you add the preprocessor and then C++ goop,
>it isn't even close to small! A language with a small clean syntax
>(but which has some other fundamental problems) is Pascal.
Okay, I'm speaking of the base language with its 32 reserved keywords,
not the preprocessor, not C++, etc. Just the reserved keywords, their
semantics, and the handling of expressions.
<<I tend to think that a pointerless typeless C with a couple touches
added for OO (inheritance mainly) would do very nicely for a MUD
language>>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00424" HREF="msg00424.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 13 May 1997, 13:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00437" HREF="msg00437.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Dan Root <a href="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</a>, Wed 14 May 1997, 01:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00477" HREF="msg00477.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 15 May 1997, 22:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00488" HREF="msg00488.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Dan Root <a href="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</a>, Fri 16 May 1997, 04:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00492" HREF="msg00492.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 16 May 1997, 07:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00388" HREF="msg00388.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative notes</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 10:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00391" HREF="msg00391.html">Distribution of Exp [was Re: Administrative notes]</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 13:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00399" HREF="msg00399.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative notes</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 20:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00610" HREF="msg00610.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative notes</A></strong>,
Todd Lair <a href="mailto:tlair#mailzone,com">tlair#mailzone,com</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 07:29 GMT
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