Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Writing an AI Program Message-ID: <1991Jun9.024822.3783@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 9 Jun 91 02:48:22 GMT References: Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 21 Most AI programs would be very long and unwieldy in Pascal because of the complex data structures involved. The usual programming languages for AI are Lisp and Prolog. Textbooks for either of these languages usually feature lots of AI examples. I believe XLISP (a public-domain Lisp interpreter) is available for the Macintosh, though I don't know where you'd get it. A good AI-oriented Lisp textbook is Winston and Horn's "Lisp", 3rd edition. As for Prolog, there is a good public domain Prolog for the PC but not for the Mac as far as I know. You can download the PC one by anonymous ftp from aisun1.ai.uga.edu. A suitable Prolog textbook is "Prolog Programming in Depth," by Covington, Nute, and Vellino. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------