Plasmon comments on Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 June 2013 07:07:28AM 3 points [-]

If it were in Java or Python, we could get a whole lot more participants.

I very much doubt this. At best we'd get a lot more people who are excited to participate but loose interest once they realize they have no idea how to write a program to parse the opposing bot.

Comment author: Plasmon 21 June 2013 08:29:25AM *  0 points [-]

Java's reflection API could conceivably be used for this purpose. (Provided the programs are given access to each others compiled code rather than to the human-readable java source code.)

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 24 June 2013 10:51:52PM *  4 points [-]

I'm sorry but really no. The reflection API allows you to see what variables and methods are contained, it can allow you to execute methods, but that's your only option, it doesn't really allow you to parse the insides of a method.