Why code a MUD in Visual Basic?
A short answer would be, why not? A more detailed answer would be: Many people have only access to computers with windows machines, myself included (until recently). There was a dearth of mud servers on the Win32 platform. That’s not the case anymore. I have looked several code bases, those were not too easy to modify and had sparce documentation. I realized that Visual Basic was readily available, and for the most part a programmer with good coding habits can make some fairly self-describing source code. This is of course also possible with other languages, but my experience has been that it’s more prevalent after you have had to maintain somebody else’s sloppy and undocumented code. Visual Basic 6 is advanced enough now to do OO programming. It does not have a complete implementation yet. It still needs inheritance. I miss having inheritance, but that is solved with VB.Net. I develop enterprise middleware, ocx components, and many other objects at my day work. So I know VB’s capabili
