Re: Java front-end for PowerLoom?
Thomas Russ <[email protected]>
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On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Has anyone tried writing a simple facility of this sort for the Java > version of Stella? Since Stella does have some debug/trace > capabilities of its own (the goal/subgoal-trace feature, at least), > should it not be pretty straightforward to include these features in a > Java-only implementation, rather than relying on the underlying Lisp > environment for that purpose? > > > > Please share any thoughts along these lines... Well, any Stella function that is defined to be a COMMAND will be available in the standard PowerLoom listener. To that extent you can have certain functions that can be called interactively. This is what David Moriarty did when developing his neural net and learning code for PowerLoom several years ago. It's also why the (help) function lists a number of functions without any particular documentation... As far as trying to add general interactive features to the Java side of things, we don't really have the resources for doing that, and also pretty much feel that such an undertaking is really the job of the Java tools people. I have heard that some of the Java IDEs are getting a lot closer to that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to rely on other people's work than to try to implement anything like that on our own. In any case, the underlying Stella system is open source, so you would be free to experiment. We would be happy to incorporate real improvements to Stella in the main source.