Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <slrn712jhd.asn.treed@freeside.ultraviolet.org>
           treed@freeside.ultraviolet.org "Tracy R Reed" writes:
> Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >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).
> 
> Have you seen Freeciv?

Yes.

> It has exactly what you describe. 

Having looked at the code, I suspect it would not be particularlty 
easy to "plug in" several programmed opponents and have them play 
each other.

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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