10 Jan
2007
10 Jan
'07
9:42 p.m.
In article <f4eb766f0701101211w4cdeca28y246d0a9b6b145d14 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
On 1/10/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
Reading about it made me wonder if it wouldn't be more fruitful to
write a perl script to transliterate the ZIL source for Zork into some
other LISP dialect or another language and work from that instead of
trying to create a whole MDL compiler...
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Ethan Dicks wrote:
[...]
In short - Can? Probably. Will? Maybe. what _is_ lost, AFAIK, is the MDL compiler and
environment...
Are there enough specs around that you could write a work-alike?