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by LinuXY 1487 days ago
I have fond memories of learning Pike and Roxen as a kid by perusing the Stellar Crisis source code (released, 1993!) I think there's still some servers around today. https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Stellar_Crisis
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xscott 1487 days ago
Yeah, in that same year I was using "LPC" in an LPMUD called "Lost Souls". I think that's a precursor to Pike, but I'm not certain about the family tree.

I had learned Basic when I was young, and my coursework had pushed me to learn Pascal and C, but I really think it's LPC that pushed me towards a career in programming.

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abathur 1487 days ago
Yes, I am also under the impression that Pike grew out of LPC (and I, too, really cut my teeth on LPC).
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tpmx 1487 days ago
Yeah, it did.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100204062426/http://pike.ida.l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPMud

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classichasclass 1487 days ago
Another Roxen user by way of LPC (even have the T-shirt!). Back in the day, gtext was the bomb. Nothing looked as good.
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