From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 06:51:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: 29 Mar 2002 06:51:20 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0203290651.3a080b21@posting.google.com> References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0203281121.5b381c47@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1017413481 15677 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2002 14:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2002 14:51:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21837 Date: 2002-03-29T14:51:21+00:00 List-Id: "Bobby D. Bryant" wrote in message news:... > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:21:09 -0600, Ted Dennison wrote: > > I'd think for an AI client application you'd want to use an AI > > language; something that can syntacticly handle rule definitions more > > easily than a procedural language like Ada, and has a nice built-in > > inference engine. Of course, you can always use Ada for the system > > software part that AI's aren't as good with. I'm not just whistling > > dixie here; I have actually done this exact thing myself. See > > http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/Fodderbot/Fodderbot.html . > > If you want to try writing your AI in Scheme rather than Lisp, I have Actually, it wasn't written in Lisp. I used CLIPS, which is a public-domain (forward?-chaining) rule-based expert system language and inference engine. At one point, I think there was even an Ada(83) implementation of CLIPS. Unfortunately, the C version has been the one that people have been maintaining, so I think the Ada version is a bit of a dead letter at this point. > Ada bindings for GUILE at > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bdbryant/guile-for-ada/index.html, > licensed as GPL + standard exeption for instantiations. Cool. I did something quite similar for CLIPS, which is available at http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/AdaClips/AdaClips.html . > Also, for non-traditional "AI" such as neural networks and genetic I don't know about "non-traditional". Those have been topics in every AI course I've ever seen. I'm told that load balancing used to be considered "AI" too, several decades ago. My CS1&2 instructor at Tulane used to half-jokingly define AI as "anything that's hard". :-) -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html