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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
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Date: 13 Nov 90 17:45:12 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.085955.4324@agate.berkeley.edu> doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt) writes:
>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? 

For writing adventures, probably.  

>By comparing to Snobol, I assume that by "obsolete" you really mean "out of 
>favor", rather than "surpassed by better designs". 

No, I mean, "surpassed by better designs", at least in the context of Snobol4.
Knowing Icon, I can't think of any reason to use Snobol4.  Unless, perhaps,
you had piles of Snobol4 code lying around.

>like C (and C++).

I certainly wasn't claiming that C or C++ would necessarily obselete Snobol4,
though perhaps C++ with a robust enough pattern class could take a shot at it.
C++ would be very hard pressed to duplicate Icon constructs like generators.

>	Doug Merritt		doug@eris.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!eris!doug)

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