From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T14:48:09+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:24 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Joe Wiltrout wrote:
>
>> I have no interest in making a Text
>> Adventure, because, for one thing, they aren't any fun! They have  
>> no or
>> bad graphics, no customizability, no nothing!
>
> Every time you say that a smurf dies in some MUD.  :(
>
> I must be getting very old.

Not really. At least not from my POV.

Rocket science is supposed to make for difficult programming. Well, I  
worked on rocket science software way back when people were actually  
going to the moon. The programs we wrote were actually rather simple  
by today's standards. What then took me three months to get running  
can be knocked out in a few hours with Mathematica today. And with  
the new Mathematica 6, a program developed in those few hours can  
display its calculations with beautiful, fully-interactive, 3D graphics.

My point: software for developing software has come a long way since  
1970. I don't know zip about MMORPGs, but is someone selling a  
Mathematica-level environment for developing them? I think that's  
what the OP is looking for.

Regards, Morton