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I think the credit for the reverse engineering of the Z-machine goes to a lot more people than merely Graham Nelson. Nelson himself only claims 'a few pieces of
by AimHere 14y ago
I think the credit for the reverse engineering of the Z-machine goes to a lot more people than merely Graham Nelson. Nelson himself only claims 'a few pieces of the Jigsaw' in the Z-machine standards, at http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/index.html http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/in... . He is the main man behind Inform, of course (and I reckon that his collaborator for Inform 7, Emily Short, is just his pseudonym too...)
- mratzloff 14y agoI think she would be very surprised to learn she was just a pseudonym. :-) http://www.edge-online.com/files/images/AI_heads_two.jpg http://www.edge-online.com/files/images/AI_heads_two.jpg
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- xyzzyb 14y agoWhy in the world would you think that Emily Short is a pseudonym? Their games and code are quite different.
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- msbarnett 14y agoEmily Short has appeared at a number of interactive fiction panels and the like. She's definitely a real, and very talented, person, and in a Male-centric field, it's somewhat insulting to see people assuming that she must just be a man's pseudonym.
- sp332 14y agoFirst, it's a joke. Second, it's a compliment to both of them because they are only alike in being top-notch writers and programmers. It's like comparing Hammet to Chandler, not Shakespeare to Milton.