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From: NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence Languages
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From: "EARN, Manuel Alfonseca" <ALFONSEC@EMDCCI11>
To:   AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU at EDU
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence Languages

In
AIList Digest             Friday, 3 Jun 1988       Volume 7 : Issue 16
Ed King mentions a list of features an AI language must have:

<         1) True linked list capability.
<
<         2) Easy access to hardware
<
<         3) Easy to use string functions, or a library to do such.
<
<So, by this criteria, all the commonly held "AI languages" would fit
<(like PROLOG, LISP, POP, et cetera ad nauseum).

Please add APL2. It has all of the above plus supporting frames
as a basic data structure. After all, a frame is nothing but a matrix
of complex objects. Object oriented programming is also trivial in APL2.



Regards,

Manuel Alfonseca, ALFONSEC at EMDCCI11