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  Re: And you thought COBOL was readable?  
From: Darren New
Date: 2 Sep 2009 22:42:12
Message: <4a9f2d04$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> True.  Sometimes people get lost on the ambition to write a sort of 
> interactive novel and forget about gameplay.

Interestingly, the reason I posted that is I finally came up with an idea 
for a piece of interactive fiction to write.

> Writing is about as good as you can get too, the guy is not just a 
> programmer and mathematician, but a poet as well.

I actually got teary-eyed the first time I finished Advent550. :-)
And I still have the original FORTRAN source code listing on a shelf.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.


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