DHARMI News

June, 1998

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    The current status of DHARMI is that there is a working but primitive model.  I am working on a rewrite in Guile and Perl (using tk). I have chosen to use the GNU liscence. Download is available in the gzipped, tarred format. It contains the source only, and a README on how to compile and run it.

    The text, number, molecule and behavior components have been tested.  It's not to say that they are in a finished form,  but they do work.

    Right now,  the behaviors can lead to infinite loops.  This is not a bad thing as this behavior is sometimes desired. Working on implementing the tolerance of triggers. I would love to have fuzzy logic as a subatomic component, ubiquitous to the project. If one wants to program recursivly,  the behavior class can do that fine by adjusting one of its triggers.
 

Task list:

I) Finish up the java development and freeze the version. Only bug fixes for the java version from then on.

1) Finish the Palette tool for the habitat.

2) Create the DAHRMI Transfer Protocoll (which is language independant)

3) Create a portal tool to transfer programs from one habitat to the next.

II) Put together a Guile implementation of DHARMI
Eric Wolf, July, 1998