Re: Porting TADS


Sun, 15 Oct 1995 19:01:09 GMT

>|> 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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