The AI Engine

or..
l8r
lata
..maybe?

Prof,

I'm learning C++ right now as well. I haven't decided if knowing Visual Basic is an advantage or a handicap.

Professor, why C++ instead of ASP or SQL?

Eugene, maybe we can help each other out. I'm on day 4 of Sam's Learn C++ in 21 days, though I'm pretty sure there's a lot of things it's not going to cover, for example, how to access a database using C++ (if that's possible). I've seen it work with text databases, but that might be too slow for ColdFusion. I'm going to try CodeWarrior as my compiler. What are you using?

MOUSE- SQL is a data querying language, and if I can access a database with C++ I'll use it within. ASP is probably the same speed as ColdFusion, and I dont know if it could even do the job. C++ compiled is FAST, 7x as fast as Java, 40x as fast as Perl.

I'm using Visual Studio.net, but I've heard that Code Warrior is very good. I haven't the foggiest idea how to access a database in C++, although I used to know how to access an Access database in Visual Basic. It's been about six years.

I've was using Code Warrior for Java, and though I found that it was generally very good, it had some strange ways of doing things, especially in terms of where files are saved and how. I personally use X emacs now because it gives you more control, but not everyone likes that. I'm assuming that the programs are basically the same when using Java or C++.

Go prof go!



Glad to hear you're at it again... Redoing it in C++ sounds great! Will you be making client applications that enable our bots to chat with us off line?

Rahz! Haven't seen ya around for a while! Hows it goin, buddy?

Heya Rahz!

Yes, eventually this will lead to Mac/PC standalone apps, but that'll probably happen after I get this all working here with the advanced features, and some new stuff I have in mind.

Turing's- I dont mind not having full control. At least not yet. I think the environment is the same for C++ and Java.

Eugene- is Basic a compiled language these days? I used to write little Basic apps back in the Apple IIc days.

Visual Basic has advanced light years. Version 6 is fully compiled, although I program in Version 3 which needs a runtime DLL. Many VB programmers are upset by the most recent version, VB.net, however. They say it isn't VB anymore. In know one professional programmer who is changing occupations because he can no longer trust Microsoft.

There goes another conversation righ tover my head. But another thought: could there be some sort of gender recognition built into the bots to whom it is important. Or is there some other way to deal with the he/she thing. (In bots, I mean. There is NO way to deal with it in humans).

Yeah. If they can refer to a bot's sex when gossiping, they should be able to do it in direct conversation. Of course, that might make us loose many of the strange things that are said to bots of same or different sexes...