[MUD-Dev] Writing a MUD Server in Visual Basic?

[Nathan F. Yospe]

Tess Lowe <tess at soulsong.org.uk> said:
> verb at rpn.port5.com wrote:

>> VB just isn't suited for the task, and i would not consider using
>> it for a mud server under any circumstances. Tell your colleague
>> to learn C++ :)

> Not that I'd ever admit to being a VB coder, but the .NET
> framework has just gone RTM and VB.NET is now all growed-up, with
> threading and *everything* (god help us). You can even use
> slightly different keywords and syntax and call yourself a C#
> coder if you like...

This might be of some interest/use to people on this list.  Me, I
really want to hate everything with the mark of the beast on it,
but, given the fact that I still work for a living, and as a cross
platform specialist, at least when not doing algorithm design, I
have to know these things, I have to test and understand them, and,
much as I hate the fact, I find I have developed a degree of .NET
envy in certain areas.  Now, if I can do a .NET compatible API on
other platforms, get its performance up to par, and ensure a M$ free
migration path if the beast does an E&E, even given the fact that
they came up with this one...

In any case, the one area I'm currently hitting the strongest .NET
envy, and the one that might interest people here, is Unicode
support.  It has a class, Encoding, that has a static member
Convert, that takes an array of bytes in one encoding, say UTF8, and
converts it to another, say what M$ calls "Unicode", which is a sort
of UTF16 missing variable widths, or UCS-2 with the added sets from
UTF-16, whichever.

Never mind that .NET breaks C++ in interesting ways, or that there's
not much support for adding other encodings (I'd like 7.5
please...), it has still got to be the closest thing I've seen to a
global translater.

Wish there was something open that filled the same criteria.  Shame
that speed is one of them.

Anyone else running into cross platform globalization issues
involving a mixture of unicode encodings and interfaces requiring
more than one such encoding?

--
Nathan F. Yospe - Physicist, Artist, Programmer, Writer, JOAT with a SAK


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