Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!greenba From: greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (ben a green) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Nerual nets and Ada? Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 16:10:08 GMT References: <436.27876349@vger.nsu.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 28 In-reply-to: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu's message of 6 Jan 91 21:50:01 GMT In article <436.27876349@vger.nsu.edu> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu writes: I have had some interesting results but have been told that Ada and Neural Nets are "mutually exclusive," "flawed in concept," etc. - by some "experts" in the field. If you wish to flame me for using Ada, please do so - I have a rather thick skin and am willing to learn. Must I use LISP and/or Prolog to satisfy the AI types or C to satisfy those who are of that faith? I found Ada useful for constructing nets of different architectures by use of generic layers with parameters. In general, I think of Ada as follows: Ada is to C what C is to Fortran. Unfortunately, there are still many people stuck in Fortran, and it will be a long, long time before the C folks learn what they're missing. I have to work in C nowadays for lack of an accessible Ada compiler, but the time I have wasted chasing C bugs that Ada would not have let me make in the first place is a strong argument for buying the compiler. Ben -- Ben A. Green, Jr. greenba@crd.ge.com Speaking only for myself, of course.