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- From: danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Programing Language
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.133822.11154@mercury.unt.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 13:38:22 GMT
- References: <95957@bu.edu> <1992Sep15.025411.19354@src.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep15.025411.19354@src.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin) writes:
- >In article <95957@bu.edu>, robrod@csa.bu.edu writes:
- >>
- >> I am just starting to look at AI (I am a senior Undergraduate in CS). I
- >> read that the new movement in AI programming was to move away from
- >> Languages like LISP and Prolog and into Object oriented languages like
- >> C++, Smaltalk, etc. Is it worth studying LISP and Prolog anymore?
- >> What should someone concentrate on for AI programming?
- >>
- [lines deleted]
- >... C++ since OOPs seem to be getting more
- >popular and it's becoming more widely available.
-
- I know C well, and I've learned a little about C++. It seems to me that
- C++ is better than C in terms of software engineering (though it
- introduces some intricacies that may make the code more mysterious).
- But why is C++ and OOP in general supposed to be well-suited to AI
- applications?
-
- >
- > For example, functional language folks will tell you that
- >languages such as ML, Miranda, and Haskell are the better
- >"functional" languages (and say that LISP isn't even one)
- >and that these languages are better for learning programming
- >than some language like C.
-
- I used ML briefly, and it seemed to be very similar to LISP except that
- the syntax was more palatable, i.e., no parentheses from hell. I liked it.
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