Hi,

Last week was quite dense :)

- we now have first order inference working (Inheritance squeak --> smalltalk) and similarity (<-> animal <-> creature) -I improved the seaside interface (still plenty of ideas, especially: -- make the memory an object (class side now) so that one can has his own memory sandbox -- use a parameter to set up the number of reasoning cycle to run -- improve the ergonomy (waiting pages, highlights elements...) -- item and entity explorer -- etc, etc... -set up a seasidehosting account (http://nars.seasidehosting.st (one glabal memory) ...

I think the app is done for GSoC. I hope soon to continue. How I see the next year is: -some improvments (bug fixes, some cleaning), -coumpound term and associated inference -Then, refactoring in the aim to better dispatch treatments, inference rules dispatch, etc...

I won't be able to start these tasks before november. Meanwhile I'll just do small changes, fixes... I'll probably spend some time on it at ESUG though.

Now, just thank you all ! Without beeing selected I won't have made this great experience. I hope soon, some people will find some interest in this system but I guess it's a bit too early to imagine it as "productive". When a bit cleaner (and some design direction chosen), I'll open a squeaksource account so that anybody interested can join. If people are already interested, they can contact Klaus or myself.

Again, thanks a lot. This has been a really cool experience :)

Cheers, Cédrick

"Giovanni Corriga" giovanni@corriga.net writes:

Hi Students,

Today is the last of the coding phase of this 2008 edition of the Google Summer of Code. Please take two minutes to reply to this single question:

1. What did you do last week?

Added the SAFormatLayer, an extension that groups all the commands related to visual aspects of range of characters, like font effects (italics/bold/narrow/underline) and colors. It allows to change the aspect of a single range of chars, or to a whole class of range of chars.

Implemented a new buffer implementation that substitutes the rough SAStringBuffer. SAStringListBuffer instead stores the buffer content in a linked list of strings. It is not optimal but for almost all the buffer operations it takes O(number of lines) instead of O(number of chars).