This is an Elm version of the paranoia game from the bsd-games
package found on many old Unix/Linux systems. Since versions of this
game now exist in various different languages
(C,
Python,
Go), I thought it
could provide an excellent point of reference for comparing different
languages, and show off the advantages of ML style languages like Elm.
Fans of functional languages often talk about the advantages of making illegal state unprepresentable, and I try to do that here. For example, look at the potential for error in the "logic" style pages in the Python and Go code.
This game originally took the form of a piece of interactive fiction by Sam Shirley set in the Paranoia universe which was published in issue 77 (Jan/Feb 1987) of SpaceGamer/FantasyGamer magazine.
That was the basis for Tim Lister's C version of the game, which was subsequently ported to Python and Go by Sean P. Kane.
I wrote the code for this Elm version but copied a lot of the text from those versions as well as occasionally referring back to archive.org's scans of the original printed version.