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From: dority@scsud.ctstateu.edu
Subject: Re: Are there any C++ library routines to support IF programming?
Message-ID: <1996Apr18.150147.1@scsud.ctstateu.edu>
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References: <4l1l46$gvr@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <4l448b$ej2@tribune.concentric.net> <STEPHENS.96Apr18195208@cantecler.math.ruu.nl>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:01:47 GMT

In article <STEPHENS.96Apr18195208@cantecler.math.ruu.nl>, stephens@math.ruu.nl (Bruce Stephens) writes:
> 
> [ comments following the "don't use C++, use TADS/Inform/Hugo" reasoning ]
 
> My favourite platform for playing interactive fiction is a machine
> with some severe memory restrictions: executables are limited to 64K

Perhaps his "favourite platform" for programming is C++. Surely, there are
better machines out there that don't have the memory restrictions that yours
does, and, by the same reasoning then, shouldn't you be playing on one of 
those instead?

Jennifer

