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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: New parsers? (was: The Return of Scott Adams)
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Jim MacBrayne (jmacb@medusa.u-net.com) wrote:
> mol@marvin.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) wrote:

> >A question to all of you: Suppose that, thanks to Scott Adams or
> >somebody else, there is a quantum leap in parser technology, *and*
> >that it adds a whole new dimension to IF. Will the old Inform and TADS
> >games then seem hopelessly out of date? 

> But of course, a *quantum* change is the *smallest* amount of change
> that can possibly take place

Actually, the colloquial use of *quantum change* is something like "the 
smallest *qualitative* change (which will be larger than any simple 
quantitative change.)"

This is close enough to the physics meaning that I don't mind it.

--Z

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