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Friday, October 23, 2009

WikiMUD Part Deux: Five Years Later …

From
Giles Cooper <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To
sean@conman.org
Subject
WikiMUD
Date
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:24 -0400

… (almost exactly five years later) …
Go on, I'm entrigued

– 
Giles Cooper
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http://planes09.wikia.com/

Giles is refering to two entries I wrote five years ago. It was more of a passing idea than anything I really wanted to work on and over the years I felt that the most likely language to implement the WikiMUD would be JavaScript (as it's pretty much Lisp in imperative form … kind of … if you squint real hard … and wave your hands around a lot), but over the past month or so, I'm thinking Lua would be a good candidate as well.

Especially given that I can now write network services in Lua.

Okay, doesn't mean I'll actually write a WikiMUD … just that now I'm in a better position to start, if I decide to.

Or someone can …

Or something …

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