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From: yorke@ug.cs.dal.ca (WAYNE MATEO YORKE)
Subject: Card Game Project
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Hi Folks!

	For my introductory course in AI, I am writing (about to begin) a
simple AI program that plays a card game. The game this time out is
Tarabish... a trump type game that is VERY popular in Cape Breton, in
Atlantic Canada, but rumored to have origins in Lebanon. To the best of
my knowledge, there doesn't exist a computer version of this game yet.
	Anyway, I intend to write this program using either LISP or
Prolog, as per the dictates of my course, and I have been searching some 
of the Web archives and repositories for general card shuffling and 
dealing codes. Since this part of the code has no real consequence on the
rest of the program, I am looking for some standard examples that do the
shuffling and dealing. Any suggestions on where I could find such things
or should I look to a different language for this type of application?
	Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

	Mateo
	yorke@ug.cs.dal.ca
