[chuckadams]

LambdaMOO was ahead of its time in many ways: lists are immutable, but there was a handy splice operator. Verbs could have aliases and wildcards or both, allowing for some interesting namespace-like behavior. Would have been nice if they could have completely decoupled the built in parser before development died off, but it should be a pretty simple task nowadays, and some places like E_MOO managed to soft-code some pretty decent parsers regardless.

[cmrdporcupine]

LambdaMOO versions from sometime in the mid-90s and up (and offshoots like ToastStunt and also my rewrite, mooR) let you override the builtin parser with $do_command.

And the builtin one I wrote in mooR is built to be pluggable (Rust trait) so should be possible to swap it out.

[chuckadams]

Ah yes I forgot about $do_command, that’s what we used. For some reason I remember doing it with raw network read commands but that was a different MOO project now that I think about it. Nice to know some people are still doing MUD server dev, it’s a scene I haven’t been back to in a while.

[cmrdporcupine]

Your name may be familiar.

[chuckadams]

Never went by my real name on MOOs, but I was on a bunch of them going originally by Phaedrus then Kirlan. I think on E_MOO I was going by Iluvatar. Prisoner #74469 on LambdaMOO, I still remember that. Probably still there, I can't imagine they do any more reaping in this current age when the whole thing can fit comfortably on a raspberry pi.