There was some work done here:
http://www.mudbytes.net/index.php?a=forum&f=36
but it sort of stagnated. I think that RaM Ice is the C rework, and RaM Fire is the C++ rework. There's a subversion repository, I believe, that you could check out although I have no idea how useful the contents would be.
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
A while ago I ported Smaug to C++. I'm not sure of its status in the main SmaugFUSS project right now.
Search this forum for a discussion about it, it is a little tedious initially, and it gets more tedious the better a job you do. Principally because of the need to change malloc and free to new and delete.
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