Re: Inform trivia quiz


14 Jul 95 16:05:45 BST

In article <GDR11.95Jul12190818@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk>, gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:
> Here's a little trivia quiz for expert Inform programmers.
>
> I confess it has the somewhat didactic aim of attempting to demonstrate
> that Inform may not necessarily be the right language to advocate for
> every non-programmer.
>

Oh dear: rec.arts.int-fiction.inform.advocacy, here we come.

I think I score 9.5/10 on this quiz (since I'm not quite sure my
answer's right for one of the questions). I think it's only fair
to comment that if "the right language" is going to be complex enough
to allow the flexibility needed for some of these problems, then
it's also going to be complex enough to need puzzling out somewhere
else if not here. (Or else it won't have a library supplied, and
you'll have to write all that yourself.)

I might, for instance, point out that:

1. How do you arrange rooms together in a map, some of them with
light shining and others not?

2. How do you put items in them, with containers and objects on top
of each other, all examinable, with messages to describe their
initial appearance and so on?

...etc., etc., all have rather easy answers.

Graham