8 Jan
2014
8 Jan
'14
6:41 a.m.
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 00:31:14 -0500
From: mouse at rodents-montreal.org
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: In defense of Lisp [was Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 125, Issue 13]
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It's the same kind of superior smugness you
get from Lisp zealots,
Zealots will be zealots.
[...], despite the fact that [Lisp] has yet to
actually produce any
AI of note despite having been around for 56 years.
I disagree, except for definitions of "AI" for which it's a tautology.
(There's a tendency I've noticed in myself to act as though "real" AI
is always the stuff that hasn't been done; once it's done it's just
algorithms, not AI.)
As a simple example, back in the '80s someone I knew wrote a Rubik's
Cube solver that developed its own macros. I'd call that AI. He wrote
in Lisp, and IMO with good reason.
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An interesting observation. I recall a project to make a maintenance
program to assist in fixing GE diesel engines. It seems they were
all made a little different.
They'd written an AI program in LISP to help with the querying
and matching engines with designs.
After it was up and running, it was translated into Forth in
order to fit into a computer that could be rolled around on a cart.
Of course now days it would just need a cloud.
Dwight