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- From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
- Subject: Re: AI in Forth
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:53:22 GMT
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- kormann@watson.bms.com (JOSEPH KORMANN (X3167 LAWRENCEVILLE)) writes:
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- >Hi. I'm most likely to be flamed out of my mind for this one but:
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- > What does anyone think of the (as I see it) the natural ability to adapt
- >Forth to AI? Being it's the only bottom-up language that I know of and it's
- >the only language that's built to be self-referencing, it seems like a logical
- >selection to me. (or am I barking up the wrong binary-tree?)
- Self-referencing? Well..., in what respect?
- In case you have not heard, there is a language which can be employed
- bottom-up, and is quite clearly self-referential. It is called Lisp.
- Naturally, its importance in AI fades beside that of Forth...
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