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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Inform: Tutorial
In-Reply-To: jools@arnod.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:07:45 +0100
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>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> writes:

> bonni mierzejewska (u6ed4@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) wrote:
>> I *do* hope that Graham gave Exercise 49 with tongue firmly in
>> cheek, though... If you don't have the DM in front of you, it goes
>> like this: "Write an Inform game in Occitan (a dialect of medieval
>> French spoken in Provence)."  And the solution in the back is: "The
>> details are left to the reader.  One must provide a new grammar
>> file (generating the same actions but from different syntax) and a
>> very large LibraryMessages object."

> I'm sure Occitan is just an example.  You might try Latin or
> Esperanto.  Maybe Nahuatl. 8)

I feel sure that somebody, somewhere, is working on Klingon...
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/

