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Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 10:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 21 10:24:00 1986
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	ZORK was written by the people involved in the real-time
	modelling group at MIT.  The language is called MDL,
	also spelled MUDDLE, and stands for Modelling Language
	or some such.  It looked kind of like LISP, except it
	used <> instead of (), and more "classical" syntax for
	datatypes.  It ran on DEC 10's and 20's, under MIT's
	ITS operating system (don't know about Twenex).  I don't
	know of other MDL code, although their certainly was some.

    	The authors of ZORK (Leibeling, et. al.) went on to found
	Infocom and others, where they wrote Zork, Deadline, etc.,
	in (first) assembly language, (then) an in-house gaming
	language.

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