ColdC

ColdC
Major implementations
Paradigm	Prototype-based
Designed by	Greg Hudson
Developer	Greg Hudson, Brandon Gillespie, Bruce Mitchner, others
First appeared	1993
Typing discipline	dynamic
Website	cold.org/coldc/
ColdMUD, Genesis
Dialects
ColdMUD, Genesis
Influenced by
C, MOO, CoolMUD, C--

ColdC is a programming language, forked from C--/ColdMUD (created by Greg Hudson). The ColdC project was started and maintained by Brandon Gillespie along with other developers, and managed ColdC/Genesis addressing applications in fields unrelated to MUDs. It is a dynamically typed prototype-based object oriented system, with a syntax derived from the C programming language. The original C-- was heavily influenced in design by the CoolMUD system and programming language. The resulting ColdC featured characteristics:

Designed for server operating environments, with a runtime that provides persistence of both data and bytecode (through an object database). Similar to Java, but if the .jar file would be continually updated with object changes as the JVM executed.
Strong encapsulation, where all object Instance variables are private and not externally visible. Methods must be added to expose them. This is similar to early object-oriented languages such as Smalltalk.
Multiple parent relationships, that is multiple objects from which an object can inherit behaviour.

In addition, there are some specific innovations that ColdC added:

A new datatype for lightweight, immutable objects, called "frobs".
An associative array datatype (aka dictionary)

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MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud MU*

Minor branches, codebases	CD CircleMUD CoffeeMUD ColdMUD CoolMUD Copper DGD EnvyMUD FluffOS GodWars Merc Mordor MudOS MUSH NUTS ROM Sequent SMAUG Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK BBS MUDs – Fazuul Kyrandia MajorMUD Quest for Magic Scepter of Goth

Programming languages	ColdC LPC MPI MOO MUDDL Mudlle MUF SWLPC

Mudlibs	Ain Soph Mudlib CDlib Discworld Mudlib Lima Mudlib LPUniversity Mudlib MorgenGrauen Mudlib Nightmare Mudlib TMI Mudlib

Protocols	InterMUD MCCP MXP

Clients	Comparison of MUD clients MUSHclient TinTin++ TinyFugue zMUD

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle Test Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Mudlib Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

History	List of MUDs MUD trees "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree"

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos

People	Alan Cox Aleksi Asikainen Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky Jeremy Elson John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Salz Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Roy Trubshaw Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

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