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Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when China Black & Blue would say:
>/ What puzzles me is that you've posted constantly (often on inappropriate
>/ groups)
>/ concerning AI for years, and yet you don't know such a basic fact about the
>/ most common of all AI languages, Lisp. Even AI programmers who work in
>
>Because he's doing his work in Forth. Forth doesn't have close ties to
>Lisp or functional programming in general.
That doesn't mean that it is safe to remain ignorant of the other
languages' approaches to AI.
Doing _better_ should involve a synthesis of the understandings
coming from "Mentifex's own work" in addition to the things he might
learn from looking at other languages.
When he suggested that it was somewhat unbelievable that Dylan could
possibly support "dynamic" programming, my first thought was
"ignorant boob;" Dylan is merely the most recent of the Lisp Language
Family, and the old and rich history is one where a major point is the
support of introspective programming.
And actually, these days, languages with the EVAL function are getting
to be a dime a dozen, as the scripting languages like Perl and Python
that have grown quite popular also support introspection.
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-- Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com>
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