[MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)

[Greg Miller]

"Jon A. Lambert" wrote:
> Raph:
> > Is it desirable, even in text environments, to have the command
> > interface be words?
> 
> Then the question posed contains a paradox of sorts. :)
> 
> Or does it?
> I assumed that "text environments" meant a server like Diku, Tiny, or
> PennMush as as opposed to UOL, EverQuest, or Furcadia.

I assumed it meant an environment with a text-based interface rather
than a graphical interface.

> 
> This would mean that user's of GMud, ZMud or MushClient are no longer in
> text environments, but players of the old PC-DOS versions of Asteroids
> and Joust are in text environments.

Indeed, assuming you mean what you sound like you mean, yes.

> 
> At what point does your CUI become a GUI?
> And more pointedly, there seems to exist a small but vocal group of text
> mud players, who have strong negative opinions on graphical muds.  Yet a
> sizable portion of them are using GUI's to mud.

Indeed, but most of them seem to be opposed to graphical elements that
affect gameplay rather than strictly the interface.

In any event, Raph appears to me to be asking whether text commands
should necessarily be english words, as opposed to single keys, unixish
abbreviations, etc.
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