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But those don't count -- they'd be dificult in any language.  Or does
Inform have some really neat libraries I've never heard of?

Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>
> Let's see...  what would be REALLY hard in TADS?  ...
>
> Matches, and the ability to start a fire and watch it burn
> and grow to consume everything, until the smoke eventually
> forces you out of the building and the fire department
> arrives...
>
> A realistic chemistry laboratory, complete with a stock
> of reactive chemicals that can be arbitrarily measured,
> mixed, heated, reacted, ...



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"The old stuff, that was bullet proof.  That's network
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