Instead of arguing language, why don't you argue platform?
Name a language and there's probably a .Net version. They are all
interoperable so you can use whatever is most appropriate. Personally, the
fact that you can now even easily embed functional language statements in
procedural languages (via methods like using F#-style calls in your C# code
and vice versa) means that it is silly to use languages and platforms that
lack the wide variety of features and interoperability of one single, common
low-level architecture supporting all the variety that people need and want.
(but, then again, I'm just a voice in the wilderness on this list ;-)
And as for Python? Great for getting reasonably small projects up quickly
and easily. The cost is trade-offs on extensibility and maintenance --
which means that, for a large, complex system, some day you're either going
to rewrite and replace it (not necessarily a bad thing) or you're going to
rue the day that you used it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <agi@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] On programming languages
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Eric Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Due to a characteristic paucity of datatypes, all powerful, and a
terse, readable syntax, I usually recommend Python for any project
that is just out the gate. It's my favourite way by far at present to
mangle huge tables. By far!
Python is definitely a very good language. Unless this has changed
since I last looked at it, though, it doesn't expose the parse tree,
so isn't suitable for representing AI content?
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