Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!rutgers.rutgers.edu!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!polyslo.UUCP!mshapiro From: mshapiro@polyslo.UUCP (Mitch Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: ANIMAL in BASIC ??? Message-ID: <394@polyslo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 02:30:19 EDT Article-I.D.: polyslo.394 Posted: Fri Jul 17 02:30:19 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 00:42:03 EDT References: <8707090304.AA15222@humu.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: psivax!polyslo!mshapiro@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mitch Shapiro) Distribution: world Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407 Lines: 22 Keywords: AI, Rule-Based Approved: ailist@stripe.sri.com 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.) "It has been said that when Science climbs the crest of the hill, it will see that religion has been sitting there all along." --- Dr. Harry Wolper