> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few others > took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known Fortran version > and rewrote/structured it into something that is much more readable and > maintainable.
To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably pointless." To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)! I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them. (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
