[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Matthew Mihaly]

At 05:18 PM 6/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>That's what they were saying.  What I'm saying is that, if your goal is to
>minimize complaints, you'll get zero complaints about the mud if the mud
>doesn't exist.
>
>(Of course, it's only supposition that any given parser would have
>"glaring inconsistencies."  Again, you can use whatever parts of the ideas
>you want to build your command language.  Thus, you can make it as
>consistent or inconsistent as you want.)

Come now, you're just being pedantic. If you want me to rephrase in more
rigid terms, the goal (ok, MY goal. I can't speak for anyone else) is to
minimize complaints while maximizing user satisfaction.
--matt




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