Lists and Lists

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	lists.z5 as entered in 1996 competition For all systems. To play, you'll need a Z-Machine Interpreter - visit Brass Lantern for download links.

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Lists and Lists
by Andrew Plotkin

Programming Language/Educational
1996

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About the Story

A tutorial in which a genie teaches you the basics of a simplified version of LISP.
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Game Details

Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 3
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 128
IFID: ZCODE-3-960823-FED5
TUID: zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t

Awards

11th Place - 2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)

Editorial Reviews

Baf's Guide

An introductory course in the Scheme programming language (a dialect of Lisp) presented as a text adventure - or, to put it another way, a Scheme interpreter with a wee scrap of text adventure wrapped around it. Since it's Z-code, and the first Z-code games were written in another Lisp variant, there's an odd circularity to it all. Not all of Scheme's syntax is represented, but it's still a good show-off piece. Hardly interactive fiction, though.

-- Carl Muckenhoupt

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