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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:54:42 EDT</LI>
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At 10/23/98 8:05 PM Chris Gray (cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA) 
altered the fabric of reality by uttering:

&gt;[ApplePiMan:]
&gt;
&gt; &gt;Agreed. But I'm curious: where do you see unnecessary complexity in the 
&gt; &gt;system as we've discussed it to date?
&gt;
&gt;I'm guessing that a lot of that reaction was coming out of some of the
&gt;stuff Niklaus was saying. I really did think he was meaning sending
&gt;actual data through some kind of pipe, rather than function calls.
&gt;Also, some of the suggestions about having native code and MUD-code
&gt;be plug-and-play interchangeable can get messy.

Much of the discussion on that latter was a bit over my head, so it's 
difficult for me to comment (which doesn't mean I'll have the sense to 
keep my mouth shut... =) ). My gut feeling is that I would really want to 
be able to compile MUD-code to native, but that anything beyond that 
would just be overkill for my own particular usage.

&gt;Perhaps I'm just being a bit pessimistic - many projects that are
&gt;"designed by committee" end up being more complex than they ought to be.

How very true. =) We *do* have a rather elite committee working on this 
one, however (at least when compared with your average design committee). 
Maybe we can buck the odds...

-Rick.


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00546" HREF="msg00546.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Tue 27 Oct 1998, 09:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00441" HREF="msg00441.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 01:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00443" HREF="msg00443.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 01:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00446" HREF="msg00446.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 02:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00447" HREF="msg00447.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 02:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00450" HREF="msg00450.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 04:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00463" HREF="msg00463.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Sat 24 Oct 1998, 23:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00470" HREF="msg00470.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Sun 25 Oct 1998, 02:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00492" HREF="msg00492.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 25 Oct 1998, 17:28 GMT
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