spoon-discuss: [OT] C++ Nomic

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:37 AM 2002-01-28 -0500, you wrote:
> On 1/28/02 at 12:33 AM Eric Gerlach wrote:
>
> >At 12:31 AM 2002-01-28 -0500, you wrote:
> >>If you want the Nomic state to be consistent all the time with no
> >>allowance for common sense, proposals would probably have to be
> >>submitted as C code or something.
> >
> >Maybe we could do C Nomic after we're done with this.  *runs and hides*
>
> Nah...we have Game Objects.  It'll have to be C++ Nomic.

Woah, flash of genius here.... I think we may be onto something... Gotta go 
to work but here goes the basic idea:

- Game runs as a daemon on a server
- Clients connect, login, and perform actions (proposals, voting) via a 
well-defined XML interface
- Proposals are patches to the code of the Server
- At the end of every voting period (whatever that is), the daemon patches 
and recompiles itself then exec()s the new copy
- If you break the game so it doesn't compile, or you cause it to crash on 
a line of your code, you win!

That's about as far as I've gotten in planning (besides some details 
brainstorming).  This could be a neat pet project.  It might be easier to 
do it in Java but C++ would be cooler (multiple versions for different 
programming languages?).  Anyone else have thoughts on this? (it's 
off-topic so let's keep it brief - statements of interest and key ideas 
only for now).

Bean