I appreciate the amount of effort you made in replying to my email. Most of your questions would be answered if you read the documentation on my site. The last time I looked, LISP had no built-in database. Has this changed recently? Does it still use that idiotic prefix notation? My internal byte code uses just such a system but it is meant for a computer to read not a human.
I set out a list of attributes that I believed a language should have to create an AGI. I found no SINGLE language that contained even a subset of those attributes. I have spent a huge amount of time creating my system to it's current level but I would stop my development, today, if a single computer language could meet my original spec list. I bought my first PC in 1976. I have owned many different micro computer systems even before the PC was invented. I helped design and program a PC from the ground up in 1979 including a muti-user CPM operating system that ran in 64K of memory. I worked on a Mac to convert a language/database program in 1984. I have used main frames, mini's and many non PC systems. I have programmed in at least 30 computer languages and I have created more than a few myself. I don't think I know everything about micros or languages but I am not a newbie or without PC experience. Unlike most people that have had a long career, I have spent ALL my career (30+ years) using micro computers. Linux stinks! I have had my linux box at my right knee now for the past 6 years and I can't wait to get rid of it. I dislike the linux culture, the cryptic operating system commands, the massive number of versions and the buggy (free) code. Six years ago, I bought over 1 foot high of documentation and taught myself Linux, VIM, Apache, PHP3, MySQL, HTML, and sendmail. I had a commercial website up and running in 30 days that logged over 150k in sales in it's first 3 months without advertising. It now is automatically updated and synchronized from my clients computer 600 miles away multi times a day. You might not agree with my conclusions but I wanted you to know that my conclusions are based on first hand experience and not from books or third parties! Most of the PC's in the world run Windows. I personally don't much like Microsoft but with 95% of users using it, I think I'll stick with the crowd. I dislike Mac and Linux much more. That's just my professional opinion. I have programmed my language in C++ but only the small amount of code that implements the IDE is actually not in portable C. Very little of the non-standard or Windows specific functions were used in my code. I do have plans to implement the language on Linux in the future but many other things are a higher priority. "If your language is one OS dependent then it sucks from the beginning." I guess this is your form of *constructive criticism*. Thanks! "You say you looked at different languages such as Lisp but your comments say you didn't really understand what you were looking at all." What exact examples do you disagree with? Do you think the examples I took verbatim from the official Lisp web site were made up? Do YOU understand or do you just know the code words? -- David Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: Samantha Atknis To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda I think you are pretty much stark raving here. :-) Linux is not cryptic compared to Windoze in the least. I have worked with Window many, many times. When I have a Windows machine that I bought myself it inevitably gets converted to Linux within 6 months. Usually this is after I have had to reinstall the OS at least once to fix the breakage that is the Windows registry. It IDEs for C/C++ are not bad if you don't mind having window-isms leak into every part of your code. .Net is a step into much better direction but I can get most of that goodness under Mono and run on more platforms. Windows GUI is not very good at all once you have lived on the Mac world for very long. The Mac running OS X gives most of the advantages of Unix on a very visually well-designed system with excellent tools. Windows is a disaster for hacking. Most of the nomal cli tools are utterly brain dead. I always load cygwin and live under it as much as possible on windoze. We want even get into the virus breeding idiocy that is Windows. At the least go the Mac route. That is my choice today for the most of the things I care about. Especially now that I can easily run Linux and/or Windows when I need to in virtual machines (Parallels). For many years I did not have any Windows machine and I had no trouble working just fine with the rest of the world. What few Windows programs I needed ran fine under Wine or had quite useable alternatives. If your language is one OS dependent then it sucks from the beginning. You say you looked at different languages such as Lisp but your comments say you didn't really understand what you were looking at at all. - samantha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ----- 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
