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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
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Joe Mason <jcmason@student.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>(But then, how is this different from reusing a large Inform library like
>Platypus or the Inform parser itself?)

It seems fairly obvious to me the difference, but I'm
not sure there's any concise way to define it. Sometimes
we talk about "content" vs. "engine", but what do those
terms really mean?

SeanB
