David Masover
9/24/2008 2:31:00 AM
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:03:42 Marc Heiler wrote:
> > I'd question why you'd want to write any of the rest of it in C, but
> > that's a different issue :-)
>
> I am not the original author, but personally I always enjoy it when
> people do not ask why I want to do something that way, but rather help
> how i do it.
There are advantages to both. Consider the hypothetical question:
"How can I delete every file on my hard drive with a single command?"
If there's an easy way to do what I want to do, I'd like to know it.
"rm -rf /"
However, in the same message, it might be helpful to suggest other ways of
thinking about the problem:
"Well, if you really want the data gone (to hide it), best 'dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/sda'. And if you only need to nuke a particular directory, you
can 'rm -rf /foo' -- but you may want to look up 'shred' first."
I might learn something. It might even save me weeks of work -- might stop me
from nuking my whole hard drive, in the above (contrived) example.
If not, it doesn't waste very much time to read them and ignore them.
So, I think Brian's post was actually helpful in that he's pointed out a few
useful resources for embedding a Ruby interpreter, and also suggested that it
might be better to write it in Ruby. (I'd second that -- a MUD doesn't have
to be fast, but it's better if it's flexible, and it really shouldn't take
long.)