Re: OLYMPIA: New command ideas

From: srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)

Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 04:51:54 +0000

desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:
>Probably I would whip up a compiler which would allow me to write my
>commands in a full-featured programming language (with some sort of
>exception mechanism that would allow various contingencies to cause
>interrupts at different priority levels) and then would compile that
>into a (very, very lengthy) IF-SKIP format.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, David, but if you would
really write a compiler to turn a high-level programming language into
Olympia IF-SKIP commands, then you're a very strange fellow.  At any
rate, I don't find this argument compelling.  Rich could simply limit
commands to (say) 100 per noble per turn.

This topic got bandied around quite a bit in Oly I.  One of the better
suggestions combined programming constructs with a restriction that
only one noble could actually give commands.  All the other units had
to be "programmed" to go off and handle tasks independent of the
player's control.

Rich has never liked adding programming constructs to Oly.  Personally,
I think it might be very interesting to have a PBEM with this kind of
programming -- a sort of large-scale C-Robots -- but I don't think
that Oly is the right setting.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: OLYMPIA: New command ideas
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 08 Jul 1994 03:13:12 +0000
OLYMPIA: New command ideas
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Thu, 07 Jul 1994 01:42:14 +0000

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Re: OLYMPIA: New command ideas
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 08 Jul 1994 03:13:12 +0000
OLYMPIA: New command ideas
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Thu, 07 Jul 1994 01:42:14 +0000