Subject: Re: Updated LambdaCoreUser/Prog manuals

From: Mike Prudence <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 01:59:10 -0800

Hi all,

Recently  [email-masked] (Winthrop D Chan) said:

> Is there going to be any attempt in the future to update the LambdaCore
> Programmers and Users Manuals? Surely the core has been updated several times
> since then to justify some additions to the manual.

Well, I'm the guy who sort of coordinated effort on this one.  It
hasn't been updated for several reasons.  It was mainly written to
help fledgling programmers on our HP-internal MOO to get up to speed,
this ot describes the LambdaCore on which our MOO is based.  As there
is no good upgrade path for adding in new Core versions, this document
would start to diverge wildly from what is actually in the LambdaCore,
as we would have to pick and choose things to port over, depending on
time/resources/usefulness.  For example, the notion of a spell checker
in a MOO makes my stomach turn, and so we haven't ported it to our
MOO.

What you really need is someone who lives in Lambda to take this up
and bring it in to line with the core there.  Then us folks could just
snaffle the bits we need to make our internal documentation up to
date.

Any takers ??

Cheers,

Mike

[email-masked]                   "Only those who attempt the absurd will 
                                                     achieve the impossible."