[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500
Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:

> > Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few
> > others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known
> > Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is
> > much more readable and maintainable.  
> 
> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably
> pointless."
> 
> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes
> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming
> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)!
> 
> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data
> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them.
> 
> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html

I agree about the silk purse comment.

I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes.