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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:42PM (#19675148)
I love how a tongue-in-cheek reply about the lack of syntax highlighting for ZIL files drew the attention of someone who actually implemented syntax highlighting for it.

https://twitter.com/taradinoc/status/1118181848494985216

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by taradinoc on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:00PM (#19675308)
Who is that handsome mystery developer, where did he come from, and why can't we get enough of him?
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by vanderZwan on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:42AM (#19680574)
We'll probably never know, it's a mystery for the ages.

Rumor has it that he owns http://zilf.io, but that appears to be unfounded

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by int_19h on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:44PM (#19678348)
And now it's a PR. By a GitHub engineer even.

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4497

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by dcreager on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:55AM (#19700110)
And now it's live on GitHub!

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118647837951004672

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