A New Turing Test

Was this packed by a human or a robot?

CLIPS Year In Review: 2018

Beta Releases 2 and 3 of CLIPS were released this year. Due to the amount of interest in using the NRC's FuzzyCLIPS (which was based on version 6.1 of CLIPS) with newer versions of CLIPS, I updated the FuzzyCLIPS source code available on GitHub to be compatible with versions 6.24, 6.3, and 6.4 of CLIPS. I also made substantial progress in writing the new CLIPS tutorial: Adventures in Rule-Based Programming.

Plans are 2019 are to complete the final release of 6.4 and publish Adventures in Rule-Based Programming.

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

More Than A Feeling

Stowaway to Oblivion

During college in the early 1980s I wrote a never published text adventure called Stowaway to Oblivion. It was written in BASIC on the Apple II and had a very simple verb-noun parser. It was a fun little program, but I've always wanted to revisit that code and do something a little more sophisticated á la Zork.

Sadly I no longer have the source for Stowaway, but when I decided to write a new tutorial for CLIPS I came back to the idea of revisiting text adventures. Although the commercial market collapsed several decades ago, I discovered there's still an active community writing text adventures.

In writing the tutorial, I've been happy with how well suited CLIPS has been for this type of application, but as it turns out there's another declarative programming language called Inform 7 that's specifically designed for writing text adventures. It's pretty cool.

DoNots

When I am Earth Overlord, it will be a crime for donut shops to be open but not have any donuts available. That's just wrong.

CLIPS Logo 2018