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Anne Compiler
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ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks) are a good way to store a "computer program"
in such a form that it can be automatically changed and thus be subject to
genetic algorithms and neuro-evolution.

The big disadvantage is that starting points of neuro-evolution are commonly
just random ANNs which perform very poor at the beginning.  Providing more
sophisticated problem solutions would speed the evolution-process up massively -
but ANNs are difficult to write by hand.

Anne is a programming language designed to provide a developer with all maior
features of procedural programming, like variables, conditionals, loops and
operators; but it is also designed to be compiled into an ANN, which in turn can
be used for neuro-evolution (and of course also for other purposes).

The goals of this project are:
 - such an "Anne-to-ANN" compiler
 - a fast interpreter to run ANNs compiled this way
 - a library allowing other software to run compiled ANNs
 - a tool for neuro-evoluting compiled ANNs