Wrong, Vedic.
It was never proved conclusively to not be a Dikurivitive. Rather, the evidence that MM's staff-et al tried to post proved it to be remarkably like a Dikurivitive - especially the where code, considering that it would take about 5 minutes with a ROM to change the code to work like said where code.
Considering that a great deal of send_to_chars and more were plagarized from a ROM, and other code considerations.....
Honestly, I think it's a ROM derivitive. But the only reason MM ever got off the hook from the flamewars was because MM's staff did the -put fingers in ears and lalalalala- thing after trying to flame the community about the code they posted being "nowhere near" the Diku equivalent.
I found it amusing, but KaVir swore to high heaven that we can't go on the warpath against MM without more evidence - even WITH the amount of evidence of MM being a Dikurivitive. Sigh.
-D
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