: > [...] (I am thinking in particular of
: >Acorns, which by the very existence of Curses must surely account for more
: >than a mere 10f the platforms used for creating IF).
: Doubtful, to be honest. Outside of the UK nobody has ever heard of
: Acorns. Aside from botanists.
Hmm, Acorns. Isn't that the computer that grows on trees? :>
Personally I think all this arguing is silly. People should write using
the language that lets them create freely and effectivly. I have a new cdrom
here (Its an interactive CD-ROM for Jewel Cave National Park. It runs on MAC
and on PC. A programmer could have written the program, created the
graphics, made it portable, etc. Except it was created by a Graphic Artist
using software that allows him to focus on the presentation of the
information instead of the implementation.
Of course in IF we still have to implement things, but it is alot easier
than having to write your own parser in 'c' or fortran or whatever.
Brian
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