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From: dbrauer@humu.UUCP.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest
Subject: ANIMAL in BASIC ???
Message-ID: <8707090304.AA15222@humu.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 23:04:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 23:04:14 1987
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Keywords: AI, Rule-Based
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Somewhere in the darkest reaches of my memory I recall seeing a listing
of the game ANIMAL in BASIC.  It's that old standby introduction to rule-based
reasoning that tries to deduce what animal you have in mind by asking
questions like "Does it have feathers?", "Does it have hooves?" etc.
The problem is that I described this program to my wife and she now wants
to program it on an Apple IIc for her elementary school students.  I believe
I saw the listing in an "Intro to AI" article in some magazine but I'm not 
sure.  I would prefer not to have to help her program the thing from
scratch so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

			Thanks,

			David C. Brauer
			MilNet: dbrauer@NOSC.Mil