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Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
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From: Mentifex <mentifex@my-deja.com>
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 05:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Organization: The Mindmaker Project
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Reply-To: mentifex@scn.org
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Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:12536 comp.lang.misc:33703 comp.ai.philosophy:93135 comp.software-eng:86852
Dylan, huh? Just what is going on there?
Here is why I ask.
On Sun.30.Jul.2000 I perused a paper by Peter Norvig and
David Cohn called "Adaptive Software" at the URL
http://www.norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html on the Web.
The authors seemed to make a wild and irresponsible claim
that with Dylan, it was possible for a running program to
grow and add new functionality on the fly, so to speak,
that is, without stopping the program and re-coding it.
Well, suppose you hade this artificial intelligence (AI)
program in Dylan, fashioned after the PD AI Mind.Forth at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/mind4th.html (q.v.).
Suppose further that you wanted your AI program to run
indefinitely for years and years, growing but not halting.
Can Dylan do the trick? Can Dylan yield an immortal AI?
Arthur T. Murray
mentifex@scn.org
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