Jolt Country

This is the new thread, replacing the old thread that Paul ruined with the worst post in BBS history. Paul, remember, don't ever post in this thread. Thank you.

Could you implement..... Opening and closing things??

I'll take brevity for 200, Alex

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:56 am Could you implement..... Opening and closing things??

This is a reasonable next step. Doors AND mailboxes!

Right, here's what you can do now:

- Move around
- Look at stuff
- Read things
- Get and drop stuff
- Open and close doors
- Be in the dark unless you carry (and light) the lamp

I did have to look a few things up on Google. Thanks for the tip, Paul!

Updates will slow on this for a bit, because I'll be tackling building the parser out to understand sentences more complex than "verb-noun", and I've been warned that building such a thing can be a very difficult task.

So you know how to code in Lua?

I would not consider myself an expert, but all of my "for fun" coding in the last couple years has been in Lua. So sure, I code me some Lua.

pinback wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:26 pm I would not consider myself an expert, but all of my "for fun" coding in the last couple years has been in Lua. So sure, I code me some Lua.

That's cool. The virtual tabletop system I use for games uses Lua a lot. I hear other game companies do too. Seems like it would be a fun job.

Lua is the most fun language, because it's very limited. You never feel like there's something you don't know how to do, you just feel like you need to figure out how to do it.

Big news you might have seen - Lua just got moved to the blockchain.

That's either a joke I don't get or a real thing I don't get.

Either way, I love it!

Interestingly enough, (or at least it's interesting to me) was that the only reason Lua exists is that Brazil has very steep taxes and serious restrictions on importing software, so since it was hard to get software from outside the country (and expensive), some students at a Brazilian university developed the language. I have to believe either they didn't have access to the Internet then, or there is a requirement to use locally produced if available. So it would have a built-in audience.

That it is used on many other things shows it fills a need other languages weren't meeting (most people will only learn a new programming language because they have to (their job needs it) or because the new language provides a serious benefit over the current languages they know. Of course, there's always the "I'll learn this, so I can add it to skills I put on a resume." Which in a way falls into the "have to" category.

I thought I told you never to post in this thread. It was a simple instruction, Paul. Easy to remember, but apparently hard to follow.

This project is still active, the other one is just more fun because it has graphics and spaceships and fuck Tom Nelson.

You can post in this thread, Paul.

You are messing with his logic circuits!

Why are we against Tom Nelson again?

Well, it's been about 35 years since Begin received any meaningful updates. He keeps promising a new build, right around the corner. He started promising this about seven years ago.

Shit or get off the pot, Tom.

(We're not against Tom Nelson. But at some point I figure he's probably just done with it.)