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From: doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Query for the Net
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Date: 13 Nov 90 08:59:55 GMT
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In article <15808@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <35844@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>>And how could we forget MUDDL, the language in which ZORK was originally
>
>Because, like SNOBOL4, its obselete.  You would use ADL (Adventure Design
>Language) to write any new adventure, right?  Ok, so you'd probably use some

Is ADL really as powerful as MUDL? By comparing to Snobol, I assume
that by "obsolete" you really mean "out of favor", rather than "surpassed
by better designs". Snobol and MUDL were hardly the world's best general
purpose languages, but they had some features that beat the snot out of
more recent, more general, but less powerful (in those areas) languages,
like C (and C++).

ADL I dunno about.
	Doug
P.S. And how could we forget MicroPlanner? :-)
	Doug Merritt		doug@eris.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!eris!doug)
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