[DGD] Current state of MUD-dom

[Ragnar Lonn]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Par Winzell wrote:

> As for the larger conversation topic, I think the basic problem is that
> the overwhelming amount of work being done in the LPMud area is endless
> redundant reimplementations of trivial low level libraries that should
> have been standardized a decade ago. There is virtually no coordination
> in the LPMud world; it seems like every single good programmer whose LPC
> interest is peaking finds a new ancient mudlib to bring from the 1991
> era to the 1993 era, and it just STOPS there. I don't understand it.
>

Not enough documentation?  Maybe a combination of not-so-good
implementations with little or no documentation?

Also, LPC has evolved, making some stuff obsolete and/or inefficient
and in need of rewriting.

Still, it's a bit strange yeah.

  /Ragnar




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