On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russel, in what capacity do you use that language?
In all capacities, for both hand written and machine generated content. > Do AI algorithms > write in it? That's the idea, once said AI algorithms are implemented. > Where primitive operations come from? An appropriately chosen subset of the Lisp primitives. > From > what you described, depending on the answers, it looks like a simple > hand-written lambda-calculus-like language with interpreter might be > better than a real lisp with all its bells and whistles. Yes, that's an intuitively appealing idea, which is why I started off there. But it turns out there is no natural boundary; the simple interpreted language always ends up needing more features until one is forced to acknowledge that it does, in fact, have to be a full programming language. Furthermore, much of the runtime ends up being spent in the object language; while machine efficiency isn't important enough to spend project resources implementing a compiler, given that other people have already implemented highly optimizing Lisp compilers, it's advantageous to use them. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
