[Icfp04-discuss] Ant entries

[Justin Koser]

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Eric Stansifer wrote:

| I really liked the parser program -- there is no way I could have
| written a 1523 state program without a parser!  By the way, the
| increase in number of lines between grid.ant.in and grid.ant.out is
| because the parser supports variables (and you thought finite state
| machines couldn't store data!), and the parser duplicates code once
| for each possible value of the variable.  Some of the code is
| duplicated 36 times (3 nested variables -- one for direction (6
| values), one for different markers (3 values), one for whether or not
| laying food trail (2 values):  6*3*2 = 36)!

Nice!  The same idea occurred to us, but we didn't have time to
implement it correctly.  The input for our entry is at

http://amoebaville.net/icfp2004/amoeba.in

and the tarball is here:

http://amoebaville.net/icfp2004/amoeba-ants.tar.gz

Cheers,
Justin
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