Woh! Talk about collision of the ego's. Why can't we all just, get allong? Chris, its very obvious by your post you are quite the intellegent, well spoke programmer. Chris, your ideas are interesting and throught provoking, but why a flame war? Its the ROM list. People, if you don't like what he says or think he's wrong, feel free to dispute it, just do it in a less-hostile manner. Chris, I've followed your work for awhile, Startermud was the first codebase I ever used when I was nieve enough to use windows :P, so I wont be questioning your ability to code, such things would be foolish, same goes for most people here, like Palrich, Chad Simmons, Dennis, and its simply because I believe they can handle the language better than I.
KaVir has written a mud from scratch, or rather is, by the name of GodWars 2. I'm not sure if it was lost in the GryphonMUD caboom, but I think he still has it going. Its also written in C++. As for your requests for things written in C, some of those are simply impossibly to write via the limitations of C. However, most of what you asked can be written in C++, or is already included in things like Java. Wether or not D or C is better, is not really a point, it matter on the writter of the code to an extent. You could write a string minipulator in C that could be just as powerful as one in Perl, yet the code could be more convoluted, prone to bugs, or just not as fast. You have to choose the right language for the right job. However, I have never come across something I could not write in C for my MUD. And I have had a multi-million room wilderness, that uses less than 2megs of ram. An OLC editor for what ever I want. It just matters on how about you go writting it. I don't think you can say one language is better than another overall. Everything has its downsides. People claim C++ to be better than C. However, if your looking to shave every last waisted millisecond of your program, C is faster hands down, then again, ASM is faster than all :P. However using things in harmony works fine. I've got a thing somewhere that impliments a try/catch block into C. Its nifty! Anyways... I'm done my rant. Davion
