On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:51:45AM -0800, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote: > As Michael Wilson pointed out, only one thing is certain when it comes > to a language choice for FAI development: If you build an FAI in > anything other than Lisp, numerous Lisp fanatics will spend the next > subjective century arguing that it would've been better to use Lisp.
All languages are shallow as far as AI is concerned, and only useful to figure out the shape of the dedicated hardware for the target. C-like things are more or less useful with meshed FPGA cores with embedded RAM, but for a really minimalistic cellular architecture C is also quite useless. However, C/MPI is very useful for running a prototype on a large scale machine, with some 10^4..10^6 nodes. It doesn't matter (much) which language you use in the initial prototype phase, you will have to throw it away anyway. Oh, and Python being slow: IronPython is .Net, and extending/expanding Python for the prototype you do in C is the standard approach. A possible solution for those who're loath to touch hardware design: Erlang. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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