[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Travis S. Casey]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> On 10:02 PM 6/2/99 -0700, I personally witnessed Matthew Mihaly jumping up
> to say:
> >
> >Well, that makes sense, except that in my experience, unless you provide
> >such a thing flawlessly, the users complain. The lack of consistency would
> >probably make it far more maddening than having a parser that is less NLP
> >oriented. I think that is what Caliban was pointing out.
> 
> Yeah, it was, but I didn't say it quite so clearly. That happens when I get
> on subjects I'm passionate about. ;)

Of course, if you take this idea to its logical extreme, why build a mud
at all?  Unless you can make it a perfect mud, you're just going to get
complaints from users...

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