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# Re: Minimal.DB

- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:22:15 PST
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- cc: moo-cows.PARC@xerox.com
- In-Reply-to: "<199511161721.JAA17643@cheshire.cc.oxy.edu> (t_pascal@oxy.edu)"

    >>>>> "Pascal" == C Regis Wilson <t_pascal@oxy.edu> writes:

        Pascal> The question is, "What is truly minimal?"  Some might
        Pascal> argue that LambdaCore is minimal.  Others posit that
        Pascal> ZenMOO (http://www.zennet.com/) is minimal, but which
        >>  I think the concept here was minimal in the mathematical sense
        >> of operators.  Such a minimal.db would have the smallest
        >> possible number of objects, and those objects would be as
        >> simple as possible, such
        >>
        Pascal> I propose therefore, a core with zero objects.  This fits
        Pascal> all your criteria.

        >> that a virtual world with evolvable dynamic behaviour could be
        >> developed from that minimal.db without recourse to "external"
        >> means.
        >>
        Pascal> Oh, in that case, minimal.db is much too minimal.  You
        Pascal> would need a core that would develop itself, since
        Pascal> wizards, programmers and builders are all "external"
        Pascal> "means".  I wrote an AI program a few years back which I
        Pascal> might port to MOO.  I could even use it in the upcoming
        Pascal> T'Hung'AMOO release.  I could also release the AI core!
        Pascal> Thank you for the ideas.

    Well, what I was trying to get at was a db that would let humans (or
    BOTs!) develop the virtual world without having to manually edit the
    database off-line, and without having to write external programs or
    functions/subroutines.  The idea was that the virtual world could be
    developed from inside the MOO itself alone.

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