[alicebot-archcomm] Program D and ArchComm

[Jon Baer]

It's the ALICE AI Foundation's evil way to get a Jedi knight to adapt his work
to the ways of the Dark Side ... assigning letters to outside work and using
the force to bring them into the CVS destroyer ;-)  Much like Dany, Philip, and
Pascalice became D, E, and P :-)

OK, sorry just saw Star Wars 2 ...

- Jon

Anne Kootstra wrote:

> So, if I've read this correctly, you are the person whe decides on the
> features regarding the development of "D", Kim regarding "E" and Paul for
> "P". Don't get me wrong, this makes sense since it is your time you are
> investing. It's just that I wanted to know the official word.
>
> --Anne
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: alicebot-archcomm-admin@list.alicebot.org
> [mailto:alicebot-archcomm-admin@list.alicebot.org]Namens Noel Bush
> Verzonden: maandag 20 mei 2002 22:49
> Aan: Alicebot and AIML Architecture Committee
> Onderwerp: Re: [alicebot-archcomm] Program D and ArchComm
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:34, Anne Kootstra wrote:
> > One thing that has been bugging me for quite some time now is: "What part
> > does the ArchComm play in the development of Program D?" This may be a
> > touchy topic but its something that sometimes confusing me when I get the
> > feeling that the topic on the table has little to do with the AIML
> > specification and more with the interpreter.
>
> Here's my version:
>
> Specifications can be designed by committee, but designing software by
> committee seems to be an ugly an inadvisable endeavor.  For a while,
> Program D was standing as the "official" implementation for the
> Foundation, simply because as the most actively used and developed
> public codebase it provided the most reasonable basis upon which to try
> to stabilize a specification for AIML.  But we've come a long way, and I
> think that Paul Rydell's and Kim Sullivan's recent work has proven that
> we've reached a point where this point is no longer a reason to give
> Program D any special status.  In fact, we are in the process of adding
> Program E and Program P to the Foundation CVS repository at this very
> moment.
>
> Anybody who wants to thumb their nose at Java (not that this is what
> Paul and Kim are doing by any means) now has a specification they can
> follow to implement an AIML interpreter in whatever language looks like
> fun.  :-)  Seriously, there is no reason anymore to regard Program D as
> the authoritative AIML interpreter.  There might be other reasons to
> regard it as a good choice for a lot of purposes, such as those listed
> by Paul Rydell in a recent mail to alicebot-general.
>
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