<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design --> <!--X-From-R13: znagnNcbobk.pbz --> <!--X-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:18:47 -0700 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 19981016021724.G4313#belltower,dyn.ml.org --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:manta#pobox,com"> </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="msg00224.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00226.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00235.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00233.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00225">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00225">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00225">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:manta#pobox,com">manta#pobox,com</A></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:17:24 -0400</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></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, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:01:39PM -0400, ApplePiMan#aol,com wrote: > > Still, how many folks who don't breathe our rarified air are _really_ > capable of learning to fluently express themselves in Perl (I can't speak > to LambdaMOO's language as I'm not [yet] familiar with it), much less As for LambdaMOO's language, SchoolNetMOO is a home to a good-sized user base (length(players()) = 1517, 400-500 of which are active), consisting mostly of people in high school. A brief scan of the database shows that there are currently 351 people who have wrote at least one verb. Agreed, some have simply @copied someone elses, but to have about 1/5th of a population able to program shows that MOO-code is doing something right... -manta </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="msg00224.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00226.html">[MUD-Dev] Current Projects</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00235.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00233.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00225"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00225"><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>[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00221" HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 02:05 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00231" HREF="msg00231.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 20:49 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00232" HREF="msg00232.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 22:38 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00235" HREF="msg00235.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Sat 17 Oct 1998, 03:41 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00225" HREF="msg00225.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, manta <a href="mailto:manta#pobox,com">manta#pobox,com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 06:18 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00233" HREF="msg00233.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Sat 17 Oct 1998, 01:00 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00236" HREF="msg00236.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Sat 17 Oct 1998, 03:47 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00238" HREF="msg00238.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>, ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Sat 17 Oct 1998, 05:54 GMT </LI> </ul> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00159" HREF="msg00159.html">[MUD-Dev] (CDMag) Sosaria Cracked: Why OSI's great social experiment is doomed</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 13 Oct 1998, 00:39 GMT </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>