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From: marick%ccvaxa@GSWD-VMS.ARPA (Brian Marick)
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Subject: Reimplementing in C
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Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:20:06 EDT
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I've been hearing and seeing something for the past couple years,
something that seems to be becoming a folk theorem.  The theorem goes
like this:

	Many expert systems are being reimplemented in C.

	If even the expert system companies are abandoning
"special-purpose AI languages" like Lisp and Prolog, surely nobody
else - other than academics and semi-academics - will use them.


I'm curious what the facts are.  Which companies are reimplementing in
C (or other languages).  Why?  And what (roughly) does "reimplementing
in C" mean?  What languages are used for development of new products?
What will happen in the future?  Which companies are not reimplementing?
Why not?

(I'm concentrating on these particular companies because they're what the
"theorizers" concentrate on.  Comments from others welcome.)


Brian Marick, Wombat Consort
Gould Computer Systems -- Urbana && University of Illinois
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