again!
Jonathan Hartley wrote:
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Jon Ribbens wrote:
Also I'd like to put in a strong vote for part of the spec being that
the game will allow human v human, human v computer, or computer v
computer games (by entering "number of players: zero" ;-) )
We talked about this during the dojo planning meetup last week. We all
had great interest in this idea and pursued it for some 40 minutes or
so. However, we reluctantly decided to scrap it because we couldn't
figure out a simple way of enabling it without providing intrusive
frameworks of code to channel the direction of the dojo participants.
If you can figure out a way, I'd be open to the discussion, but I'd be
wary that we might simply be retreading the discussion that was
already had.
Having said that, I realise with a moment's reflection that we were
somewhat transfixed by the probably misleading initial suggestion
(mine?) that a single process should play as one player, and that to see
computer-to-computer matches we should wire up the stdin of one process
to the stdout of another.
Your framing of the problem as a single process playing against itself
is doubtless more straightforward and simpler to implement (although it
lacks the aspect that I found most appealing of allowing matches between
differing implementations.) However, your version may have the advantage
of actually being achievable from a blank slate in the very limited time
available.
However I feel like a dojo is good for practising technique,
test-driven, design, refactoring, and as we saw last time, having a
subject matter which puts us under time pressure does somewhat force all
these things out of the window, since people feel under pressure to make
progress towards the ambitious goal. So I would vote for having the
simplest dojo we can possibly persuade ourselves to accept, at least
until we find out feet.
Jonathan
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