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From: wagner@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Course
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:02:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 01:02:22 1987
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Keywords: AI course, programming, Prolog
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In my opinion, Prolog and AI are not that much interwoven as they are, just
because some people in a small room somewhere decided to use Prolog for their
(so-called) AI problems, but because Prolog is SUITABLE and ADEQUATE for this
class of problems for a number of reasons. One shouldn't argue that Prolog is
no good to be taught in an AI class because of bad experience with this type
of courses. If fact, requests for information on how to teach these courses
will hopefully improve them.

Juergen Wagner,			(USENET) gandalf@portia.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA