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Subject: Re: AIList Digest   V2 #1
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 15:08:11 EST
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It seems to me that FORTH would be a very good AI language.  It provides the
same sort of runtime modifiability and extensibility that Richard talks
about, it's EXTREMELY compact and I personally believe that it is easier to
read (although neither LISP nor FORTH are paragons of readability).  I haven't
been reading net.ai much and maybe somebody has brought up this possibility,
but after working with FORTH for a while, it seems like an ideal language in
a lot of ways.

Darrell Plank
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