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Worlds and words
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 10:11 am on 5/23/2006
No, seriously: Inform 7.
Back when I was tooling around the streets of my childhood in a tricked-out HyperCard, one of the supposed big deals about it was that HyperTalk was like English - it was going to make programming approachable for the masses, because the masses could read it. The same gets said about Ruby these days.
But no: Inform 7. Look at it. If you care about language, if you like games or fictive worlds, or if you’re a literate person with even a tiny shred of interest in coding: look at Inform 7.
Yes, I feel strongly about this. INFORM 7. Thank you.
May 24th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Inform was always a great language - it’s really exciting to see it transformed into something dramatically better.
Beautiful! I wish I wanted to write fiction.
May 24th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Heh! I have the same problem.
May 29th, 2006 at 3:16 am
[…] This sounded super-interesting: a new version of the interactive fiction maker, Inform, is out. […]
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Inform7 makes me feel like an autistic eighth grader with graphomania.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
That’s good, right?