Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!wsccs.UUCP!dharvey From: dharvey@wsccs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: AI Languages Message-ID: <19880613194826.0.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Jun 88 19:48:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu From: mtune!ihnp4!utah-cs!gr.utah.edu!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wsccs!dharvey@att.att.com To: comp-ai-digest@unix.SRI.COM Path: wsccs!dharvey >From: ihnp4!utah-cs!gr.utah.edu!uplherc!wsccs!dharvey (David Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: AI Languages Summary: Features of an AI language??? Date: Sat, 11 Jun 88 03:33 EDT References: <19880527050431.8.NICK@MACH.AI.MIT.EDU> Lines: 34 In article <19880527050431.8.NICK@MACH.AI.MIT.EDU>, Pat Hayes writes: > Date: Mon, 16 May 88 13:29 EDT > From: hayes.pa@Xerox.COM > Subject: Re: AIList Digest V7 #1 > In-reply-to: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis 's > message of Sat, 14 May 88 21:50 EDT > To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU > cc: hayes.pa@Xerox.COM > > I was fascinated by the correspondence between Gabe Nault and Mott Given in > vol7#1, concerning "an artifical intelligence language ... something more than > lisp or xlisp." Can anyone suggest a list of features which a programming > language must have which would qualify it as an "artificial intelligence > language" ? > > Pat Hayes You wanted an opinion, so here it is! There probably isn't such a thing as list of 'must' features for an AI language! There are things I would 'like' it to have though. The first is that it must allow the action to proceed anywhere (ie any Lisp function (procedure), and Prolog predicate, or any FORTH word). The second is that it must be at an abstract level that allows me to forget about what the computer is doing and concentrate on what I am doing. Obviously, there is no such language in existence that does this yet. So we latch onto anything that even closely resembles this ideal. Take your pick, Smalltalk, Lisp, Prolog. One person's dream is bound to be someone else's nightmare! dharvey @ wsccs (David A Harvey) I am responsible for Nobody, and Nobody is responsible for me. Behind the Mormon Curtain.