Re: lisp-based netcat standin?
- From: Kent M Pitman <pitman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Apr 2007 16:28:27 -0400
Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I am working with (and a little bit, on), the LISP-based MUD Monster
Mountain (http://code.google.com/p/mmtn/) -- and I would like to be
able to connect to this thing from within LISP instead of from the
shell via netcat. Can anyone suggest a LISP equivalent to nc
localhost 4141 ?
I'm not familiar with what netcat does, so can't answer your question,
though I suspect the answer is that you want to read about the sockets
library for your particular implementation. Lisp does not have a
standard sockets library, but most individual Lisps have something.
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On the general issue of the MUD, though:
Is the MUD scriptable in Lisp or in some other language? I looked at
the URL and it wasn't clear even on that.
I would think a project to use Lisp data structures and a language
with a MOO-like semantics and security model would be quite cool,
because the MOO kernel itself could be extended in Lisp, but the surface
scripting language could be kept secure.
Incidentally, relating to discussino on another thread here, MOO is a
nice simple dialect that could easily be offered in both infix and
lisp formats, especially since the core stores programs (at least in
the existing MOO worlds I've seen) as structure, not as text, and
regurgitates them for the user each time a request to edit is done.
So syntax is not presupposed and stored comments are not even an
issue. Pavel Curtis, who developed MOO, worked on ANSI Common Lisp's
design, and while the language he designed was not at all Lisp, it's a
truly interesting (if highly domain-specialized) language in its own
right, and shows Lispy ideas in a number of places, as well as others
that are foreign to Lisp but also quite cool. It's definitely worthy
of study in its own right, and probably overlooked as a serious
language merely because its data structures are a bit light and its
domain area is not "professional enough". But its ideas on security,
persistence, user interaction, object system extensibility, etc. are
quite interesting.
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