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I found this interesting spoof and wondered if I could use it to zap
people new to AI or who hang around the subject. It was interesting ....
to say the least. 

--- rajesh kanungo
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			FORTRAN

			CONTRIBUTED By Martin Merry
			in
			The Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Tools
			Edited by Alan Bundy


   FORTRAN is the programming Language considered by many to be the
natural successor to LISP and Prolog for A.I. Research. Its Advantages
include:


1.
It is very efficient for computation (many A.I. programs rely on 
number-crunching techniques).

2.
A.I. problems tend to be very poorly structured, meaning that control 
needs to move frequently from one part of the program to another. FORTRAN
provides a special mechanism for achieving this, the so-called GOTO
statement.

3.
FORTRAN provides a very efficient data structure, the array, which is
particularly useful if, for example, one wishes to process a collection
of English sentences each of which has the same length.