Lists and Lists

Lists and Lists
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	1996
Credits
Author	Andrew Plotkin
Reception
Events	IFComp 1996 11th of 27
IFDB rating	4.5 out of 5 (26 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Location	One-room
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 5
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
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How it begins

You enter an unfamiliar room where you see a computer and a genie. Turns out the genie is there to teach you the Scheme programming language.

Notable features

• It is actually a tutorial for the Scheme programming language (a cleaned-up version of Lisp), disguised in a rather thin fiction.

Versions

Competition version

Date: 1996

• Lists and Lists (Andrew Plotkin; 1996; Z-code 5).
  • Release 3 / Serial number 960823 / Inform v1502 Library 5/12
  • IF Comp 1996: 11th place of 27 entries.

Links

N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.

General info

• Lists and Lists - home page.
• Lists and Lists (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Lists and Lists - at IFDB.
• Lists and Lists - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

• Lists and Lists - at SPAG.
• Lists and Lists - at IF Ratings.
• Review - by Paul O'Brian.

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Date: 1996