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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!xcs.contex.com!marvin.contex.com!liz From: liz@marvin.contex.com (Elizabeth Cyr Jones) Subject: Re: xyzzy Message-ID: <DF9sL8.1Gt@contex.com> Sender: usenet@contex.com (News Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: marvin.contex.com Organization: Xyvision Design Systems, Wakefield, MA References: <43n91t$4nh@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <DF8FM4.3AJ@nemesis.lonestar.org> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:24:44 GMT Lines: 39 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.folklore.computers:88579 rec.games.int-fiction:7460 comp.unix.bsd.misc:241 In article <DF8FM4.3AJ@nemesis.lonestar.org>, Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org> wrote: [snip] >One of the authors gave me the file "PARSER.MUD" from ZORK, circa 1979. >Uh, the code isn't that clear (even after reading the MDL primer), but it >looks impressive. Stuff like: > ><COND (<AND .ADJ > <COND (<AND <SET OBJ <GET-OBJECT <CHTYPE .ADJ PSTRING> <>>> > <SET OS <STUFF-OBJ .OBJ .PREP .PREPVEC .PVR .VB>>> > <SET PREPVEC <1 .OS>> > <SET PVR <2 .OS>> > <SET PREP <SET ADJ <>>>) > (<OR .OBJ > <OR .VB > <TELL "I can't see any " > 1 > <LCIFY <STRINGP.ADJ>> > " here.">>> > <RETURN <> >SPAROUT>)>>) I hesitate to point out that a real live Infocom Implementor lurks around herein, so rather than muddle (ha) around with fact and fiction; though that string does "look" real, maybe someone just post a question or so. Just a thought. > [snip] >Of course, one of the guys that worked on the Infocom PC port now goes >around telling people he was one of the original authors of ZORK, but he >was really working at GE at the time.... Oh yeah, who? Inquiring minds want to know. liz jones Infocommie forever liz@contex.com