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I'm building bot support and DSL to help teach my nieces, nephews, and daughters to program. I'd like to make sure what I build can get upstream.

1. Add "Ninjas bot" support via a module Bot.hs. This module includes "runBot" which either uses a default bot or loads some bytecode from a file specified at runtime.

2. Define a turning-complete byte code. No strong ideas here yet, but basic operations of Move, Attack, Smoke, and GetWorld would be included.

3. Define a language 'Ninja'. This could be a "typical" DSL that includes the primitives and helper functions in the style of:

   distanceTo :: World -> Entity -> Int -- returns the distance to the taget
   followBeizer :: World -> Entity -> Command -- returns a Move command

   Or it could be a more restrictive language that takes a set of conditions for attacking, moving, and smoking. In this case the possible "conditions" and their logical connectives would be part of the language.

4. Make a stand-alone compiler, shipped with Ninjas, that compiles Ninja to NBC - Ninja to Ninja bytecode. Also, write tutorials.

5. Parameterize the step rate in the server to allow faster game play for tournaments or faster evolution of Ninjas (given a genetic algorithm).

6. Add a server parameter that will identify the clients' Ninja, allowing easier development.