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Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Klaus Schilling
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:

> In article <WXE*nb+Gn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
>            damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk "David Damerell" writes:
> > Thandor <homer_j_simpson@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> > >That greatly depends on the program. Some programs make no sense to be run
> > >non-interactively. Why would I want to run a game non interactively for
> > >example? (Just the first example off the top of my head, there are plenty
> > >of others).
> > 
> > Perhaps I am trying to write a bot to play the game for me.
> 
> What would be really cool would be for people to write bots to
> play a game like Civilisation, and have all the bots play each other
> it see which is best. If this sort of thing took off, the quality
> of programmed opponents would increase over time (like it has done
> with computer chess).

Anyways there is a game explicitely constructed for bot usage. It's named
GNU robots, by J. Hall.

		Klaus Schilling
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From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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