<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: Introduction --> <!--X-From-R13: @nguna Kbfcr <lbfcrNunjnvv.rqh> --> <!--X-Date: from babe.globecomm.net [207.51.48.8] by mx5.ibm.net id 860129110.40092-1 Fri Apr 4 04:45:10 1997 --> <!--X-Message-Id: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970403182407.3902C-100000@uhunix2 --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 199704031744.RAA678337#out2,ibm.net --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: Introduction</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00011.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00013.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00007.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00014.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00012">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00012">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00012">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: Introduction</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: Multiple Recipients of MUD Design Mailing List <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#null,net">mud-dev#null,net</A>></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: Introduction</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Nathan Yospe <<A HREF="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:48:05 -1000</LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Shawn Halpenny wrote: :Hello, all :) This is my first (and thus introductory) post to this :list so here's a bit of background about myself: We have several new people on the list, the majority of the ones we were trying to acquire, I believe... what say we do a roll call/reintroduction, both for the new members, and to refresh on who is doing what. The older members, of course, are most familiar with us vocal sorts, but still... I'll go first. My name is Nathan Yospe, AKA FireBrand, Lissajous, and occasionally Tony Aspe. I am a student of Biomedical Physics, with a real interest in nanotech, and a firm belief that it could be a realistic goal for science in the next fifty years. I got into programming because of an internship just out of high school, and have managed to make my way into cometancy with no formal training, particularly in C++, though I am fluent in several other languages... everything but Pascal, pretty much. And ADA. I got introduced to MUDs by my roommate (then, and, after a two year interm, now) about three years ago. I played them, a full scale addict, for three months, Mercs, mostly, though I was a reg on Discworld (lp), TF2000 (MU*), and a few others, including a short stint on Island (solved the puzzles, got bored) and a few others. About six months after starting, I was reduced to a half hour at most a day, stopping on to chat... a year after starting, I began coding my first ROM. It was nothing special, codewise, and I didn't own the account... but I gave it a coherent world, a world split between chthulu/gothic magic and techno/cyberpunk technology. The establishment of a battlezone between them, where a veil of noncommunication had failed after 7000 years, was one of my proudest accomplishments. Felix should remember this... he wrote the central city of the tech world, ScienChron. I was just getting into it when the owner of the account got drunk and deleted the mud one night in order to "upgrade" to ROM 2.4. I hung on for a few weeks, but the magic had died, and I had just gotten an opportunity to start my own MUD with a classmate in the physics dept. I invited Felix to join me there, as he had impressed me (and Dan Mazeau, that young man I had originally known as a punk kid, has continued to do so. He will be the best of us yet.) and started on Singularity, the ROM that, ultimately, grew beyond the limitations of its codebase. In mid August, I started rewriting ROM in C++. It took me two days. It was great. It.... sucked. I had barely learned what C++ meant. The objects were crude, used no inheritance... encapsulation was shakey.. and so I began again. And again. I started getting input from people on the mud related newsgroups, but most of them had no clue. Russ Taylor was the worst. Eventually, Chris Lawrance contacted me with an invite to the first incarnation of this list, and I discovered just how much was left in potential improvements... v.2 went into the rubbbish, then v.3. I'm on v.5 now, and feel almost confident enough to play with the big boys. I have graduated from mount control programming in Fortran to database back end programming in C++, and neural nets have slipped their way into my mud code, in a form... I've mastered threads, and sockets... and I just know sometime within the next week, somebody is going to post something to this list that is going to make me say "Whoa! How could I have been so clueless? Ah, well, back to the drawing board." __ _ __ _ _ , , , , /_ / / ) /_ /_) / ) /| /| / /\ First Light of a Nova Dawn / / / \ /_ /_) / \ /-|/ |/ /_/ Final Night of a World Gone Nathan F. Yospe - University of Hawaii Dept of Physics - yospe#hawaii,edu </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00011.html">Re: Event-driven?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00013.html">A late introduction</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00007.html">Introduction</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00014.html">Re-Introduction</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00012"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00012"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: Event-driven?</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00028" HREF="msg00028.html">Re: Event-driven?</A></strong>, coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 01:05 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00030" HREF="msg00030.html">Re: Event-driven?</A></strong>, coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 08:34 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00034" HREF="msg00034.html">Re: Event-driven?</A></strong>, Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 10:53 GMT </LI> </ul> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00007" HREF="msg00007.html">Introduction</A></strong>, Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Fri 04 Apr 1997, 01:37 GMT <UL> <li><Possible follow-up(s)><br> <LI><strong><A NAME="00012" HREF="msg00012.html">Re: Introduction</A></strong>, Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Fri 04 Apr 1997, 12:45 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00014" HREF="msg00014.html">Re-Introduction</A></strong>, S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Fri 04 Apr 1997, 21:49 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00020" HREF="msg00020.html">Re: Introduction</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 06 Apr 1997, 02:47 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00031" HREF="msg00031.html">Re: Introduction</A></strong>, coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 08:54 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00199" HREF="msg00199.html">Introduction</A></strong>, Jamie Norrish <a href="mailto:jamie#sans,vuw.ac.nz">jamie#sans,vuw.ac.nz</a>, Thu 24 Apr 1997, 13:29 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>