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From: mshapiro@polyslo.UUCP (Mitch Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: ANIMAL in BASIC ???
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 02:30:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 02:30:19 1987
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In article <8707090304.AA15222@humu.ARPA> dbrauer@humu.UUCP (David L.
Brauer) writes:
>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.

There was originally shipped with the Apple II's (maybe for subsequent 
machines as well) that very program written in BASIC.  It learned new
animals and stored them in a text file (I think).  But it did learn 
learn them.  Find someone you know who has an Apple II.  I believe this 
was shipped with DOS 3.1.  -- Yes, I have a pretty old Apple.  #7919 
just in case anyone out there cares.


Mitch Shapiro			
mshapiro@polyslo (well, for all of another 3 days, that is.)

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