From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:57:52 +0000 (-0400) Subject: More history of non-influence. X-Git-Tag: 0.90 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b88d77bea292c8ab194760d9d7583e91109638f2 More history of non-influence. --- diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 1686645..dac2561 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -120,12 +120,17 @@ rediscovered by computer historians many years after Adventure shipped. There was also Hunt The Wumpus <>, written by Gregory Yob in -1972. Though the wumpus was (much) later included as a monster in the -Nethack roguelike game, this was done in a spirit of conscious -museumization well after early roguelikes. There is no evidence that -Yob's original (circulated in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts) -was known to the ARPANET- and minicomputer-centered culture Crowther -and Woods were part of until well after Adventure was written. +1972. There is no evidence that Yob's original (circulated +in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts) was known to the ARPANET- +and minicomputer-centered culture Crowther and Woods were part of +until well after Adventure was written. + +(I was a developer of the Nethack roguelike early in that game's +history; we knew of Hunt The Wumpus then from its early Unix port, but +it didn't influence us either, nor in any apparent way the designers +of other early roguelikes. After my time the wumpus was included as a +monster in Nethack, but this was done in a spirit of conscious +museumization after historians rediscovered Yob's game.) Neither of these games used an attempt at a natural-language parser even as primitive as Adventure's.