[lojban] Re: Lojban/Interactive Fiction panel at Penguicon?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:08:15PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> Hey jbopre,
> 
> I managed to persuade Andrew Plotkin to attend Penguicon. He is
> one of the foremost contemporary authors of Interactive Fiction,
> AKA "text adventures". For more information, please see
> http://www.brasslantern.org/beginners/ and http://ifdb.tads.org/
> Andrew is giving a talk about programming language design,
> specifically the Inform 7 programming language that is a subset of
> English used as source code for Interactive Fiction.
> 
> I'm trying to come up with new ideas for panel discussions he can
> be a part of. And then I realized, since we have so many
> Lojbanists attending Penguicon this year, what if there is a topic
> that the Lojban community and Interactive Fiction programmers have
> in common? Like parsers. I myself don't know enough to flesh out
> the concept. Any other overlap topics? Do you have any help to
> offer?

I don't know that I have anything useful to add, but I did want to
point out
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Colossal+Cave&bl=y

-Robin

-- 
They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/


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