From: swedberg211@... (Manny Swedberg)
Date: 2004-04-05T22:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: mine.rb

George Ogata <g_ogata@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<87r7v35u6e.fsf@optushome.com.au>...
> swedberg211@yahoo.com (Manny Swedberg) writes:
> 
> > Anyways, mine.rb in the sample programs directory seems to have a lot
> > of the functionality I'm looking for, but the comment are all en
> > japonais.
> 
> Wow, I never looked in there before.  Minesweeper in 176 lines is
> quite impressive!

;)

> > Anyone know of an easily-available, simple sample program that does
> > kind of the same thing?
> 
> I haven't looked, but the usual places to search are RAA, Rubyforge,
> and maybe even Google.
> 
> But surely that 176 line program is short enough to decipher even
> without readable commentary.  If you have questions on a particular
> piece of code, plenty of folk here can probably help.

Thanks, George.  Haven't looked any further into mine.rb, but after I
posted this I found CursWrap, which was just what I needed.  Really,
really nice ncurses interface.  If you're here, Julian: nice job!

So far I've got a little '@' who can walk around on the screen and a
scary red 'g' (for 'goblin'!) who dances around like a monkey; ai
courtesty of rand().  The next step is to make it so they can kill
each other, and then all I have to do is add in a whoppingHeapOGold
object ('$') so you can win the game.

I'm liking this language a lot.

Best,

Manny