RE: Where'd MOO come from?

• Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 14:34:45 PST
• From:
  Roger Crew <rfc@microsoft.com>
• Encoding: 35 TEXT

If the guy's name is Steven White (a.k.a. ghond) then yes, he actually
*did* write the first version of MOO.  Pavel's version is called
"LambdaMOO" in part to distinguish it from this earlier "MOO"

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>From: 	cooey@server.uwindsor.ca[SMTP:cooey@server.uwindsor.ca]
>Sent: 	Sunday, November 03, 1996 1:39 PM
>To: 	moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
>Subject: 	Where'd MOO come from?
>
>I was recently corresponding with a someone, and somehow we got started 
>on the topic of MOO's.  The conversation evolved into this:
>
>> > I was under the impression that the MOO server was built by Pavel Curtis
>>
>> yeah, that's what everyone thinks.  kind of a pet peeve of mine.  in 2nd
>>year
>> i designed the language (before i learned C++, which explains some of the
>> weird syntax.. kind of a mishmash of C, Ada and SmallTalk), coded up the
>>beta
>> version, and put it out on the net.  pavel grabbed it and extended it.  
>> if you look at the source, though, you'll see my name.
>> 
>
>Now if this guy was just some yahoo then I wouldn't give it a second 
>thought, but he's the kind of guy who just might have done something like 
>this.
>Anyone care to shed any illumination on this?
>
>Tosh
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