Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!swivax.UUCP!vierhout From: vierhout@swivax.UUCP (Paul Vierhout) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: AI Languages Message-ID: <19880613194800.9.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Jun 88 19:48:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 10:03 EDT From: Paul Vierhout Organisation: Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Informatica University of Amsterdam Herengracht 196 1016 BS Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 245365 or +31 20 5252066 (from 1 July 1988). To: NICK@ai.ai.mit.edu Subject: AI Languages Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest In-Reply-To: <19880527050431.8.NICK@MACH.AI.MIT.EDU> Organization: SWI, UvA, Amsterdam cc: AIlanguage features: old: procedure-data equivalence less old: nondeterminism, 'streams' ,unification,OPS5 pattern matching, shell-like: ability to specify frames and/or rules, and possibly control promises: abstract models of cognitive tasks like the Interpretation Models of Breuker and Wielinga (SWI-UvA, Amsterdam) for knowledge acquisition, or the six generic tasks of Chandrasekaran (Ohio State Univ.). Not at all an exhaustive list; shouldn't an AIlanguage ideally exhaustively offer all features currently available ?