Re: Shared game-data

This thread is very confused.

• lots of games do use the RM. Most modern MMORPG persist the unbelievably large amount of data they amass using RDBMS.
• lots of games don't, but they tend to be the ones that don't need to persist much data. There is impedence between OOP and RM, so one can understand (if painfully) the inertia in even educated games programmers, especially given the lack of native RM-based libraries and the pressure they are under to bodge something together that just works by publishers.

Slow client-server architectures are the problem, not RM itself, for these people. Programmers need the tools - a relation template in the STL, and support for RA in <algorithm> anyone? Given I still can't even use a standard hashmap cross platform yet, I'm not holding my breath.

• Prolog is not a particularly popular tool in modern AI, despite its nostalgic charms. Nerual nets, evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, subsumption architectures, etc.. hardly a thriving area for an old inference based language.

And yet people seem obsessed with reinventing expert systems, just as they do hierarchical databases.

Aren't people odd. Received on Sun Apr 30 2006 - 17:56:39 CDT