Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?


Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:46:19 -0500

gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:
> "Andrew C. Plotkin" <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
> > just declare a big empty array and steal some malloc() / free() code.
>
> I want to spend my time productively writing games, not re-implementing
> the wheel! Yeah, sure, I can pull out Knuth vol 1 and write myself some
> heap allocation routines, but I think it's one of the marks of a good
> programming language that I don't have to do so.

I think C is a good programming language, and it doesn't have dynamic
allocation in it.

One of the best things about Inform is that it doesn't have a parser
in it. Kind of a strange advantage for a text-adventure language, huh?

Or, to be more direct:

You're complaining that Inform can't do X, and when I point out that
it can, you say you'd rather not write the library routines.

--Z

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