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I think that they should teach drinking in junior high and stop making it a college level course.
-- Johnnie Royale
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OK, so, maybe the people who say that Free Software is, like,
30-year-old technology kinda have a point. Because this GNURobots
game is, like, real real real real low tech. And unless you're
a total HACK-crazed maniac, it's gonna bore you to tears.
But, that said, if you ARE a total hakisto, then GNURobots is gonna take up some
of your time.
See, it's ESSENTIALLY that 2nd-year comp sci project that you did so poorly on
because you spent most of the week doing whippets in the kitchen of your
friend's co-op with girls with long greasy hair instead of programming.
Remember that? Probably not much. But GNURobots is like that "Hunt the Wumpus"
deal -- you have to create a program that will get your evil little doppelganger
through a series of obstacle to the GOAL.
Oh, and you have to write all the program in GUILE, the crazed FSF answer to
Perl, TCL, and Python (woo-hoo! Late 80s technology!). So, there's another
little hump to get over.
I wish you luck with your little robot. I've already got mine trained to post on
Usenet and to keep an eye on utility stocks (tech stocks are hard!).
Check it out yourself
ozzyluvr@pigdog.org
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