[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Matthew Mihaly]

At 07:56 AM 6/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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...

The idea is to minimize complaints. Why institute a system, such as a
parser that is mostly consistent with some glaring inconsistencies, that
will just cause more complaints?
--matt




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