Greetings. I must confess before we start that I'm a MOObaby, and know a buggerload more about LambdaMOO and MOO Code than I'll probably ever know about ROM.. but I do know the basics.
There is a lot of emphasis on editing parts of the MUD while still online, hence the whole OLC thing (obviously), and I come from a place where the entire VR universe is edited online. In a MOO the only things hardcoded into the server are basic functions: connection-related funcs like 'notify', 'connection_hostname', 'connected_seconds', 'idle_seconds', and things of that ilk; string-manipulation-related like 'match', 'index' and 'strsub'; and maths-related like your usual math.h max/min and cos/sin/tan functions. It handles listening on ports, opening connections on outgoing ports, and compiling and executing the internal code. The entire MOO database is read into memory and only saved to disk periodically (usually every hour, in a 'dump'). As a result, all the actual 'running code' of the MOO is stored in the MOO data files themselves. Which means absolutely anything and everything can be altered at run-time (without having to recompile). I know most of you don't care a jot about MOO, so I'll stop the lecture there. But the point I'm getting at is: I don't know that much about mobprogs (except that you use it to 'script' the actions of mobs), but it sounds like a simpler version of MOO Code. Is this a wrong assumption? And working from this idea, would it be totally stupid to even consider trying to combine elements of MOO with ROM? Like the high- level internal language, for one. I'm not saying one should (or even could) port ROM to MOO or vice versa; it's probably possible, but really pointless, since ROM does it better already; but would a merging of code ideas seem practical to anyone out there? The more I think about it, the more it seems to sound like just creating an RP MOO using similar structures and stats to ROM.. RP MOOs have been done. I'm probably just wasting bandwidth. Matty ----- I'm not dead. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
