[OT] MUD building

[Mark Szidik]

Sounds like Ben is volunteering :)

I want to get involved in this project.

Ben brings up some good points.  Even if you are not interested in MUD's
it is a great software development project that hits on a lot of UNIX
programming aspects.   Plus it is a whole project 

I hope Ben's comments don't discourage anyone.  Sure it may be a lot to
do and be hard, but the only way we learn is to try.  The project will
benefit from all skill levels, and as Ed pointed out there are a lot of
things to do in the project besides coding.

And you can get your name up in bytes when the project is GPL'd...

-Mark


On 2 Oct 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> 
> [...about writing a MUD...]
> > It would be a good "beginner" coding project for people wanting to learn
> > Python. I do see a lot of benefits from the project. 
> 
> I pity the "beginner" who tries to write a MUD.  Writing a MUD is
> a nontrivial endeavour, involving (at least) the following
> issues:
> 
> 	* State machine coding, if single-threaded, or
>           synchronization issues, if multithreaded/multiprocess.
> 
> 	* Natural language processing.
> 
> 	* Network interfaces (probably want an integrated TELNET
>           server).
> 
> 	* Database management, for managing the world environment.
> 
> 	* Real-time processing, for handling turns.
> 
> 	* If graphical: network protocol design and multiplatform
>           GUI design.
> 
> 	* If extensible: compiler & interpreter design, for an
>           embedded programming language.  (If writing in Python
>           you could probably sidestep this requirement, but you
>           still have to worry about security issues in that case,
>           if you allow high-level users to modify the
>           environment.)
> 
> 	* File format design, for checkpointing the database.
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