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From: mroberts@.uucp (Mike Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Interactive Adventure Writting Language
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Date: 12 Apr 89 19:26:52 GMT
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In article <39514@vax1.tcd.ie> trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie (Tommy) writes:
>  I'm in the initial stages of considering writting an *Interactive
>Adventure Writting Language*. My motivation for doing this is the
>language FORTH and my love of text adventures.

I've been working on just such a project for quite a while.  My latest
attempt, which has been running for about a year now, has demonstrated to
me that the ideas the author of this note presented are right on target:
make it a language for maximum flexibility; produce an interactive environment
for maximum productivity.  I would add one other thing:  make the language
object-oriented.  A friend of mine who also likes writing adventure systems
came up with this idea, and it's worked out fantastically well in my system.
OOP was originally invented for programming simulations; an adventure is
essentially a simulation.

Good luck--it's an ambitious project!