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History of LPC

LPC is an interpreted language created by Lars Pensjoe for LPMUD. LPMUD, also written by Lars Pensjoe, is an interactive multiuser environment suited for many purposes, games not the least among them. Since its first appearance in 1988 the language has changed dramatically.

Development was taken over around 1990 by other people at Chalmers Datorfoerening, especially Jakob Hallen, Lennart Augustsson and Anders Chrigstroem. They extended and refined the language extensively but LPC still strongly resembles its parent language, 'C'. The main differences lie in the object structure that LPC imposes and several new data types to faciliate fast development. LPC isn't as free-form as 'C', but it's far more suitable for its original purpose - programming in a game environment.

Felix Croes wrote a driver called DGD which uses a variant of the standard LPC language. DGD is far more advanced than most LPC drivers in several ways, although it includes a far smaller standard library of functions. DGD is also different in that it allows commercial licensing for a fee, which other LPMUD drivers do not.