Re: [gnugo-devel] GTP Tcl integration (incl toy global alpha-beta)

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Douglas wrote:
> GTP looks enough like Tcl ("command arg arg..." returns result) that an
> integration might be useful.
> [...]
> Applications include debugging, regression, and building
> metamachines. A nice feature is that anything built this way could
> work with any GTP compatible engine, although I've only tried it
> with Gnu Go.
> [...]
> With a scripting language, we could do complex logic in regression
> testing, like this example that checks the randomness of the move
> distribution:
> [...]
> It has lots of issues (error handling, eg), and makes me want more from
> GTP (introspection, eg.) but still, I'd be interested in hearing if this
> is useful to anyone. All comments appreciated.

I'm sure it's nice for people who like Tcl (I don't) but it's not
fundamentally different from what we already do with the scripting
languages Perl, Python, and Pike in twogtp, twogtp-a, twogtp.py,
twogtp.pike, regress.pike, and view.pike.

/Gunnar