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Smith · 04-09-2006, 08:15 PM

I would argue against NLP on the principle of least supprise.
English has ambiguities, and NLP has a tendency to just choose one of those ambiguous overloads for you. The end result, you type in some command which you think is going to do one harmless thing, and could end up doing something dangerous, which gets you or others killed.
Having extended syntaxes for commands to explicitly handle all the different variants your mud needs, potentially with several variants for performing the same task is well and good. But full NLP is a dangerous ground.

04-09-2006, 08:15 PM	#15
Smith Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 33	I would argue against NLP on the principle of least supprise. English has ambiguities, and NLP has a tendency to just choose one of those ambiguous overloads for you. The end result, you type in some command which you think is going to do one harmless thing, and could end up doing something dangerous, which gets you or others killed. Having extended syntaxes for commands to explicitly handle all the different variants your mud needs, potentially with several variants for performing the same task is well and good. But full NLP is a dangerous ground.