Alan, there is nothing *fraudulent* about the Flare language proposal. I see no cause for that sort of accusation here.
Personally, I happen not to think Flare is a great programming language design. But I don't care much for PL-1 or COBOL or a lot of other language proposed by programming languages gurus either. There's certainly nothing fraudulent about proposing a programming language that isn't so hot. If there were, then dozens of PhD theses each year would be fraudulent, as creating and implementing a new language (satisfying some particular purpose or illustrating some particular point) is a moderately common PhD topic. Very very few of the languages proposed and prototypes ever get used by anyone outside of their creator and a handful of supporters... And hey, I could be wrong about Flare. Eliezer says plainly that the syntax currently proposed for Flare is tentative. I think the current form of Flare is not going to be workable as a programming language, but perhaps some variant of it may someday. The "annotative programming" idea is interesting... -- Ben Alan Grimes wrote: > > maitri wrote: > > For those interested in programming languages for AI, you may want to > > check out: > > > http://flare.org/ > > > This is a group developing a language geared exclusively towards AI > > development. They are affiliated with the Singularity Institute... > > Asside from my usual gripes about Eliezier Yudkowsky, his usual > vagueness is readily apparent here. He makes some mention of the > completeness of the language but he doesn't demonstrate how it should be > used to solve common programming problems. Beyond that he offers no real > explaination of the execution mechanism or his motovations for designing > it that way. I would say that it is just trying to sap off of the > popularity of XML without contributing anything to the science. > > If I had some more evidence, I would be as bold as to call Eliezier a > fraud... > > -- > pain (n): see Linux. > http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
