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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Repository of AI source code
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Date: 8 Dec 90 21:34:11 GMT
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mnr@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu (Marc Ringuette) writes:
>It would be extremely useful to have access to an archive of source code
>for common AI problems.  Such an archive could contain simple planners, 
>parsers, frame-based representations, and commonly used algorithms.  This
>would encourage sharing and discourage reinventing the wheel.

Instead of a central archive, have a central index.  That means that
one machine does not have to store all the source, etc.  It just needs
to store an index and "how to get" instructions from all the various
sites listed in the index.  

This has been successfully done on rec.games.frp, where someone keeps a 
list of electronic resources and how to use them.  It is posted every month, 
I think.

Joshua Levy
joshua@atherton.com
(408) 734-9822