The facts that are of relevance in judging an authoring system are used
rather nicely in the TADS-v-Inform FAQ. Questions such as portability,
support, required level of programming knowledge, supported operating
systems, resource requirements, distributability of produced games, and
so on. Much of this information should be available in the
documentation. It should be enough to bring out as much objective
information available on them (including information on which ones appear
in discussion here in raif frequently) and allow the reader to pick.
/Steve