Joel Uckelman on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:44 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [game-lang] review of GDL


Thus spake Marc Lanctot:
> 
> I'm not an expert here, as I'm sure you can tell. So I can't comment on 
> much about the logic. I agree with Joel's points and observations. I 
> always expected a logical game description language to be more like the 
> situation calculus** with built-in high-level abstract board game 
> concepts and stochastic events.
> 
> **http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_calculus
> 

Incidentally, one of the people whose work is cited on that page,
Krzysztof Apt, was my promotor for my PhD, but we've never talked
about the situation calculus before. Maybe I should go across the
street to see him sometime this week. :)

-- 
J.
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