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Original post by Edward Ropple You peripherally touch upon another important point in that all of the major codebases out there are principally C based. Writing your own allows you to modularize code and write it in cleaner C++ or Java or whatnot. As I said, I've written MUDs from scratch in a number of languages (the PHP project being my current one and making me want to tear my hair out, the Visual Basic one being the most ridiculously easy), and the code is usually more readable and usable in another language--even if you decide not to use OOP techniques.