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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Canadian Culture; also, IF Development Environment questions
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Steven Dengler (sdengler@xe.net) wrote:
> What's "insulting" (I hesistate to use the word) is about it that we as
> Canadians -- at approximately 10% of your population -- are constantly
> faced with ubiquitous American media saturation. 

Us too.

> As a reaction, we have
> laid as a cornerstone to our culture the belief that we are somehow
> fundamentally different than Americans. Not better, mind you, and not
> worse -- just different.

If all this stuff the TV vomits at me is America, I have the same feeling.

> It helps us from feeling that we're crushed
> under the weight of American culture, culture which is imposed on us not
> by malicious intent, but just because you're so much *bigger* than we
> are -- numerically, at least.

Us too. You think I feel enfranchised by the American media monster?

> --- on-topic section begins ---
>  
> I'm considering taking the notes I've accumulated for the past 15 years
> on this ultra-cool IF project and actually coding the sucker. What
> thoughts do people have on the best development environment and
> interpreter for the project? It's straight (or shall we say, "pure")
> text, with no funky graphical requirements.

There's a big 'ol FAQ at 
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/general-discussion/authoring-systems.FAQ

I'm not sure it's been thoroughly updated; recent changes are that Inform 
has become much more seriously object-oriented, and TADS is now freeware.

--Z

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