Lich Lich is a scripting engine for text-based MUDs.
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Lich is a scripting engine for text-based MUDs. Lich is a scripting engine for text-based MUDs. It is not a complete front-end in and of itself: it operates much like a proxy server and communicates with the user through their chosen front-end (effectively giving the appearence of expanding the front-end's features with its own). Lich includes a slightly altered, extended, embedded-version of the Ruby interpreter.This means it allows you to write and run scripts for a text-based MUD in the Ruby language. Why Ruby? Several reasons, really; first, moreso than any other language I've personally played with, Ruby accomodates you rather than trying to make you accomodate it. As a language I've found Ruby to possess an elegant self-sufficiency that abstracts away the need for a competent grasp of its low-level functioning, allowing one to simply make use of its features with very little need to be concerned with programming's more mundane details.I could probably spend hours talking about the things I've come to love in Ruby, but in the interest of saving time, I can sum it up by saying two things: I used Ruby because it's a personal preference of mine, and because the interpreter is able to fit together so beautifully with an independently developed piece of software that it almost seems a shame not to take advantage of its extensible design.

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