PH work

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:25:12 -0300

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RE: PH workI know of at least one that was written in COBOL because I wrote
it.
You could choose the level of difficulty by varying the number of pegs and
the number of colours as well as specifying whether duplicate colours were
allowed or not.  I must have had more time on my hands back then.
Had to use SPL for the random aspect tho.

Bob Comeau
Sr. Systems Programmer Analyst
Crossley Carpet Mills Ltd.
(902)895-5491 ex 139

  -----Original Message-----
  From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]On
Behalf Of Deskin, Bob
  Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:16 AM
  To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu
  Subject: RE: PH work

  A little PowerHouse trivia:

  An early demo application for QUICK was the game MasterMind, where you
figure out the sequence of a series of colored balls by making a guess and
then refining your guess based on the information returned (like how many
were in the correct spot and how many were the correct color). In fact, I
was told that the RANDOM function was added because it was needed for the
game.

  Now I grant you, it's not a shoot-em-up, but then how many of those were
written in COBOL. In fact, I don't remember any games written in COBOL. I do
know that the original text adventure, Adventure (also know as Colossal Cave
Adventure) was written in Fortran.

  Bob Deskin
  Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
  bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
  3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:36 AM
  To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu
  Subject: RE: PH work
  Importance: Low

  I would have liked to have seen a PH based computer game.
  Seems that all the languages that 'made it' (except PH)
  had geeks that played with their language, but not PH,
  odd that.)

  BT

  Tracy Johnson
  MSI Schaevitz Sensors

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Jon (Jarod) Hawks [mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com]
  > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:58 PM
  > To: Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa); 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu'
  > Subject: RE: PH work
  >
  >
  > I love your optimism. Over the years mine has been
  > tarnished by participation in large companies. It's
  > like the urchins who program in Java, cling to the
  > rocks at the bottom of a fast flowing river, and the
  > big-wigs are content to just be in power and control.
  > Productivity and the sense of pride in accomplishment,
  > seems to be a thing of the old school, of which, I am
  > part of and fading away.
  >

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