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::: I wrote that bit as part of an effort to characterize the original implementation and build up the task description. (The task description was ''very'' rough to start out with!) I still think it makes sense to load the rulesets from an external file. After all, they're a program (a nearly pure turing machine) and they can get rather long, and it's useful to load from a file as this encourages separation of the interpretation engine from ruleset itself. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 09:35, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
:::: Plus the fact that the ruleset definition includes a comment syntax (which I didn't write, just tidied up) is highly indicative that it was originally intended to be file-hosted. (I'm not sorry to lose the requirement for input and output data though.) –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 09:37, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
:::::Hi Donal, on some operating systems, like flavours of Unix, stipluating the data source to be a file makes it very flexible, as most things are made to look like a file by the OS: ftp, HTTP, pipes, ... if your program aaccepts files, then all is well. This may not be the case in other operating systems. I think it is OK to treat the source of the data as a separate concern that is not part of the task. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 23:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
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