Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames

[Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]

On 4 Apr 2002 08:46:28 -0800, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
wrote:

>You are trying to put the cart before the horse.

No, not really, because I'm not trying to start an Ada roguelike
project. It wasn't me who suggested it, I just jumped in the thread to
talk about NetHack's size and quality :)

> ESR goes over this in detail in his writings at
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/

Also, I think I have less faith in ESR's writings and ideas that you
do... I like open source, but I'm not religious about it. I even go as
far as admiting I like some Microsoft products, and I'd rather work
and program with NT/2k/XP than any Unix/Linux.

>Its silly to go looking for loads of MIs before you have a product. So
>what AdaHack needs (assuming it needs anything) is the first MI to get
>it started.

Rest assured that if I ever think it worthwhile to start writing an
Ada roguelike, I'll start it myself, and perhaps even maintain it so.
One of the more succesful and original roguelikes around (and the only
one I'd put as high as NetHack on a quality basis), ADOM (www.adom.de)
is the work of just one person who's not released his code because he
does not like the idea of other people disrupting his vision.
Undoubtedly unfashionable at this time of politically-correct open
sourcing, but the game is *very* good...

                                                               /Lektu