Using Python for Modular Artificial Intelligence code

[William Tanksley]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:07:45 +0930, Tim Auld wrote:

>>>I've started looking into Python as the AI scripting language for this
>>>purpose, but I'm having trouble seeing exactly how I could do this.  I

>>Where do you use C++ for anyway? GUI's? Build them in Python, forget C++
>>until you are done and than use C++ to speed up critical sections

>system further.  The reason I'm using C++ is mainly because I'm familiar
>with it, and because of speed.  I'm aware that Python is relatively slow, so
>I would rather use C++ as a base from the start, and save myself the trouble
>of rewriting it all later.

If you write everything in Python, you will wind up with a program which
works far sooner than if you'd written it in C++ (unless you're _REALLY_
good at C++).  You can then pull out the parts which need speedup into C
or C++.

It won't be that much trouble to rewrite -- it seldom is, really.  The
hard part is getting the design, not writing the program.  Python offers
the ideal design language, because it's executable.

>Tim

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