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: 2002-03-28 23:25:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:20:43 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0203281121.5b381c47@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-42-4.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1017386510 18723 128.83.111.212 (29 Mar 2002 07:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:21:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "Ted Dennison" Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21816 Date: 2002-03-29T01:20:43-06:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:21:09 -0600, Ted Dennison wrote: > Erik Sigra wrote in message > news:... >> The other use for Ada is AI-clients that connect to servers in the >> same way as GUI-clients. > > 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 Ada bindings for GUILE at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bdbryant/guile-for-ada/index.html, licensed as GPL + standard exeption for instantiations. The bindings aren't complete, and I haven't tried any AI or even heavy-duty scripting, but I do use the bindings regularly for loading data in Scheme syntax into my Ada programs, and I have done some simple application scripting with it. I would probably be trying it out for game AI right now, if not so busy with other matters. Also, for non-traditional "AI" such as neural networks and genetic algorithms, I have had very good luck with Ada. Right now I have a super-simple AI working for a super-simple game using these methods, all in Ada. (It's starting to look like I will be writing a dissertation on that topic, and I will most certainly do everything in Ada and Scheme.) Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas