I have started a little project mainly to increase my programming skills but also out of curiosity. I am going to have two bots battle it out in an imaginary ring. Each bot will have an AI script written for it. The scripts will resemble the C language. I thought it would be fun to see which script would be the best. I would load up a script for each bot, and interpret it in real time. The bots would be simple, having "sensors" that would basically give an angle, distance, and what it is (either a barrier or another bot). Right now I know virtually nothing about AI, and have been wondering what kind of features would be necessary for the scripted language that I create. I understand that pathfinding would be involved, especially if barriers were put into the ring. What am I missing? I need some direction, maybe if there is source available for a C-style interpreter and/or examples of some AI pseudocode that could apply to a C-like language. If anybody could help that would be greatly appreciated.

That looks very similar to what I will be trying to implement. I was going to write my own interpreter with as many features as I can. It seems that the robocode uses java or &#106avascript for the AI of the robots.

Does anyone know of some resources for making a C style interpreter?

Quote: I was going to write my own interpreter with as many features as I can.

Ahh, yes. Why have less features when you can have more?

Quote: It seems that the robocode uses java or &#106avascript for the AI of the robots.

Java.

Quote: Does anyone know of some resources for making a C style interpreter?

Explain to me what C style interpreter means.

ch is a interpreter for c/c++. What is it you are trying to learn AI or how to write an interpreter?

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ch is a interpreter for c/c++. What is it you are trying to learn AI or how to write an interpreter?

I actually am trying to learn C++. I thought that writing a C interpreter would be a good way to continue learning. As for AI, this project will be fairly basic. I thought that I would concentrate on writing the interpreter first, and when I said "C style" I meant the same syntax and semantics of the C language (or at least as much as is necessary for the AI to function properly... ) I want it to be close to C. Of course I don't know much about AI or interpreters but I thought it would be good for experimenting. I am sorry if my language is unclear I just wanted helpful suggestions on interpreters and basic AI.

Also I can think of many reasons to have less features compared to more.

*For some reason the plus plus in C++ isn't showing in the preview