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Comment Re:The first things I used computers for (Score 1) 106

And I don't mean the Fortran version, but the original MDL code (aka, Muddle) which is a much weirder variant of Lisp than ZIL.

ZIL is basically a subset of MDL, so most of the weirdness you've seen in MDL is also there in ZIL. Check out the "maze" files in Bureaucracy, for example - the game reads a text file at compile time and generates pages of gibberish that have to be combined in the right order to solve a puzzle.

Comment There is a very simple test here. (Score 4, Interesting) 163

Does a dog know the difference between play fighting and real fighting? Yes. If any dog in the park crosses that line they all know basically simultaneously. Do you really think children are less perceptive of the difference between real and play? If not that kid has a problem and video games have nothing to do with it.

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