Programming: A Proper Lady's Architectural Toolkit

Things change with every new invention, because each new power has it own strengths and weaknesses.

Today, with the rise of Programming Artificial Intelligence Agents, The Multi User Dungeon, is a powerful architectural choice.

Let us place Artificial Intelligence first for once, and note how Text Based Virtual Worlds with strong rules and state machines.

Are are perfect fit for a thinking machine, that uses text for its thoughts, creations, plans, instincts, and memories.

If text worlds and text based AI are not a perfect fit, then it is about as close of a fit you will ever get.

And now let us turn to you, and your first gnarly, programming project.

So that you can see, how Multi User Dungeons, think multi-user text adventure games, help you see.

The first useful thing that we all try to do with computers, is try to automate some process.

And that invariable demands asking the user some initial questions, and routing them to another set of questions based on the initial input.

Where do you start? With a really well thought out form, maybe business process management software?

Or a home made solution, for example, a WikiWiki, that instead of showing articles prints input forms.

Before you know it, you will start asking about where we save data, how do we pre-populate the already answered questions.

And then, unfortunately, you discover that you are adding more and more, concepts, layers, mnemonics, ifs and buts.

But, if you base your forms on a virtual world, where you are sent through a set of departments.

That each asks you to fill out forms, that you then carry in your inventory.

You discover, that not only are you not adding tangeled up new ideas, but you can also perfectly wisualize and predict how multi-user aspects work.

How forms can be filed to special offices, how you can put an AI worker in a room to check for data validity.

And perhaps even learn, by making notes, and keeping them in its own pocket.

You can now modify the filing process, by simply injecting a new office, where there was once a door.

The multi User Dungeon, or multi user text adventure, is not only perfectly compatible with today’s artificial intelligence agents.

But it also enhances your, imagination and reasoning abilities.

Ask your favorite AI, to create a little Multi User Dungeon MUD for you today.

It is tradition to test MUDSs with a mini game called, Twisty Little Passages.

But perhaps, in this bright you age, tell your AI to come along.

And log in as several characters that will teach you, the beauty and power, of MUD in an adventure game worthy of a Dame in a world of strange mysteries.