"Writing a really general parser is a major……" — Graham Nelson
"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
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19 Quotes by Graham Nelson
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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out…
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This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather…
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At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
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I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways.…
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I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
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I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the…
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If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing,…
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Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it…
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The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the…
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The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me…
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The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of…
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