[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design

[manta at pobox.com]

On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:01:39PM -0400, ApplePiMan at aol.com wrote:
>
> Still, how many folks who don't breathe our rarified air are _really_
> capable of learning to fluently express themselves in Perl (I can't speak
> to LambdaMOO's language as I'm not [yet] familiar with it), much less
  
As for LambdaMOO's language, SchoolNetMOO is a home to a good-sized user
base (length(players()) = 1517, 400-500 of which are active), consisting
mostly of people in high school.  A brief scan of the database shows that
there are currently 351 people who have wrote at least one verb.

Agreed, some have simply @copied someone elses, but to have about 1/5th of a
population able to program shows that MOO-code is doing something right...

-manta