[MUD-Dev] Virtual machine design

[Oliver Jowett]

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ben Greear wrote:

> I'm curious why so many people want to build internal languages into
> their MUD?  I don't mean to sound critical, it's just that I have never
> really seen the benefit.  [...]

Some of the more important benefits I see are:

- A language that is good for writing low-level
  networking/MM/database/etc code is not necessarily a good language for
  handling game logic and behaviour (and vice versa).

- An internal language can have a much faster development cycle than
  making the changes to the server itself.

- You can make it a lot harder to blow up the mud from an internal
  language. This means that a) you limit the impact of your own stupid
  mistakes, and b) you can allow people to develop code in the internal
  language who you couldn't let work directly on the underlying server
  for stability reasons.

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