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Originally written by Kill Yourself:

A few suggestions from someone dealing with the same issues:

* When dealing with non-programmers, verbosity is generally preferable to conciseness. Example:
print_str_color("The beast roars furiously. It doubles the intensity of its attacks.",2);would be better as:
PrintColoredString("The beast roars furiously. It doubles the intensity of its attacks.", Red)I know you might not like the CapitalizedWordsMethod, but I've found that nonprogrammers can distinguish words better with capitalization than with underscores.
* Allow preprocessing, like Khoth suggested.
* Cover up the state machine -- something like
is much easier on the eyes than
http://forums.desperance.net/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=68
This is how my Pygmalion would implement basically similar functionality.

It's really hard to get out of a programmer's mindset when designing the scripting interface. I'm still not there yet after over a year.

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Originally written by Arancaytar:

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Originally written by TurtleWhipper:

I actually had a friend who tried to sell his virginity on ebay. He only got $5 for it though.

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That's still a deal.

Whatever did the buyer get, anyway?

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Originally written by Lord of Evil:

I am back fellow Spiderwebbers. My family changed the family webserver. Sadly AOL has turned into theivs, they know they have everything and so they can charge as much as they want and there members will not leave because where else are they going to go. But it got too expensive for us, my family owns three cars and a house so we can not afford a web server that will charge as much as they want and think nobody can do anything about them because there AOL. I'm sure Ted Turner who is partners with AOL probily owns a fleet of luxerly cars and a giant mansion and can still afford AOL. But as for my family that does not take in one tenth of what Mr Turner brings in, things are a little diffrent. Anyway I now have Verizon which is a very big phone company in the states, and have there own webserver. But sadly to say Verizon sucks. Even though AOL are big, greedy and take advantage of the fact that they have Instant messanger and no otther webserver does, but they still had a good server. I do not miss dealing or should I say my family dealing with the Evil that is AOL, but I do miss there instant messanger and everything else that AOL had that no otther webserver(not even a webserver as big as MSN) has. AOL is so great and so terrible at the same time, and the great part creats the terrible part. I guess too much of a good thing is a bad thing.

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Originally written by martpender:

I'm reading "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook" by Scott Adams.

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