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Re: Euphoria Robots etc.

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jul 19, 1998
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Jeffrey Fielding wrote:
>
>         There is a programming competition on the Internet called POTM
>         (Programmer
> Of The Month), in which programmers submit programs in C, C++, Java (and
> some other programming languages) to solve a program or compete against
> other programs. There was one in which two programs started in diagonally
> opposite corners of a grid, and their goal was to get to the other
> program's starting corner. They could issue one command per turn, to move,
> build a wall, zap in one direction (the zap would continue in that
> direction until it hit something) to destroy a wall or make the other
> program loose its turn, or use radar to find out where things are.
>         The program would get information about the problem from a file passed
>         as
> the command-line parameter. The program would then send its response to
> standard output.
>         Maybe there could be something like this in Euphoria (the POTM contest
> does not include Euphoria in the accepted languages, and the programs are
> run on Solaris).
>         If you are interested in the POTM contest, you can find its web site
>         at
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/corin/POTM.PAGES/

Nice!

A suggestion to make it more fun - let's use Jesus & Greg's sockets to
play over the internet in real time. We'll need a standard game display
which everybody copies,
and a set of rules. Your program waits for its turn, sends a move,
listens for
other player(s) moves, and manages the screen. That part is standard,
shared by
everyone.

Obviously, something like this could also be used for human players, but
I like
the idea of dueling robots.

You write the robot's response methods - the smarter the better.
(Unless perhaps we deduct points for taking too long to evaluate the
situation?)

Regards,

Irv
http://www.mindspring.com/~mountains -- Euphoria programs and links