[DGD] LPC birthday?

[Shentino]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Erwin Harte <harte at is-here.com> wrote:

> bart at wotf.org wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:06:50 -0500, Erwin Harte wrote
> >> Felix A. Croes wrote:
> >>> bart at wotf.org wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> According to my information, Lars wrote the first version of the lpmud
> driver
> >>>> in april 1989, and the first public version was available in the
> summer
> > of 1989.
> >>> Fast worker.
> >>>
> >>> I guess that must have been a 1.x version.  Though I've never found any
> >>> source code online that predates LPmud 2.x, I think it had no
> inheritance
> >>> and no arrays.
> >>> Perhaps the exact date can be tracked down in an old
> >>> rec.games.mud.* archive.
> >> We did some digging in Google's usenet archive and think you are off
> >> by a year.
> >
> > With regards to the public release, that could well be true. The April
> 1989
> > date for the very first version is based on the credits file from the
> 3.1.2
> > source.
>
> That time-line doesn't make sense when comparing it to what the games
> say about themselves:
>
> - Genesis' own web-pages state they opened in early spring of 1990,
>  which is in line with when Lars released 1.3.
>
>  http://genesis.tekno.chalmers.se/moreinfo/faq
>
> - Nanvent/Nanveant existed before but the LPmud version didn't come
>  into existence until September '91:
>
>  http://groups.google.com/group/alt.mud.lp/msg/d192661e814766f5
>
> And there are more inconsistencies to be found.
>
> That said, it's certainly possible that Lars (privately) started
> working on LPmud in '89.  It's not something you write overnight.
>
> Erwin
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Linus torvalds could do it overnight no sweat.

He can also do infinite loops in his head, and he plays 3D games by realtime
interpretation of the source code.