CircleMUD VS DikuMUD

Unfortunately the server has a blocking select until there's a new socket for when there's no open sockets to manage. I either have to change the old logic or write some awkward condvar stuff (like here https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD/commit/94c27cc11fda671ede5316e6aadc170889060f5e). It's really sad, the naive version that busy loops when the server has no connections is very chic and then it gets a lot harder to follow.

Here's the original CircleMUD code. Here's a decent write-up of the origin of "proc" as shorthand for a triggered effect. Here's a TIL of someone from another MMO discovering its actual origin.

CircleMUD code from https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD

That's a backronym. Proc is just short for procedure from ancient MUD code, randomness is not necessary or implied. You'll notice the term "mob" for a monster also comes from there, they used to be called "mobiles".

You want to write a sort of "multi user dungeon". Try to read this codebase ~> https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD/tree/master/dm-dist-alfa

Trust me, nobody back in EverQuest or DAOC or RuneScape or any of the MUDs that preceded them was talking about "Programmed Random OCcurrences". A "proc" is just a procedure that fires in response to an event. You can see the code for yourself.