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From: palmer@ansoft.com (Palmer Davis)
Subject: Re: Porting TADS
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References: <44i6vd$58l@life.ai.mit.edu> <45dvlk$43d@bubba.NMSU.Edu> <19951010.210000.43@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk> <45k4pn$atc@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 19:01:09 GMT
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>|> people are
>|> not being given the go-ahead to port TADS or update existing ports for
>|> "minor" systems (ie, non-IBM or non-Mac).
>
>Seems like there is an opportunity here for some enterprising
>enthusiast to reverse-engineer the TADS runtime format and
>create a freely-available interpreter.

A better idea, if someone is *that* interested, would be to sit down
and write a compiler for the TADS language that produces Z machine
output.  That would probably be easier to do, would be much more
useful, and would also effectively put an end to the debate over
having TADS vs. Z machine divisions in next year's contest....

-- PTD --

(Doesn't the TADS manual include a BNF grammar for the language?)


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