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Subject: Re: Sycamora Tree: "Inform is outdated"
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info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes:

>dle@octarine..adfa.edu.au (Daryl Essam) wrote:

>> mol@pobox.com (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>>
>> >In article <CDPF6.99453$166.1881100@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>,
>> >Nikita <ayzik@home.com> wrote:
>> >>This is from http://www.sycamoratree.com/games.html :
>> >>
>> >>"We are currently building a completly new adventure engine in Java. the big
>> >>change from other engines is that this version will be able to build the
>> >>worlds in an object oriented style. "
>> >>
>> >>One word: what?
>>
>> >Just more symptoms of terminal cluelessness, I suppose.
>>
>> 	Presumably.. what they really mean is if they write it in java, they
>> 	won't have to rewrite it for different computers..

>That's a symptom of terminal cluelessness regarding other IF engines,
>them, because the same thing is true of Inform, TADS, and presumably
>many of the others as well.

>Richard
	What a tone.. tut tut tut. Sure the zip code from inform is
	universal, but you still have to write a new Z-machine for each new
	computer.

	The same is true for java, it needs a new JVM for each new machine,
	but chances are someone beside Sycamore tree will have written it.

	Thus if you are developing a new interpreted language (ala zip code),
	you will have to write
	a new virtual machine to interpret it. If that machine isnt written in
	java, then you will have to write a new virtual machine for each actual
	machine... do you get it?


						Daryl
