On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote: > As someone who works on code-modifying AI (genetic programming, much along > the lines described above -- which, BTW, I would expect Thrun and Norvig to > mention only briefly, if at all... but that's a debate for a different forum) > I find that languages that make code manipulation simple and elegant do help > one to experiment and develop these kinds of AI systems more easily. > > But this is true whether the manipulated code is compiled and executed in the > normal way or treated as a data structure and interpreted in some other way. > > On the one hand most people who work in genetic programming these days write > in non-Lisp languages but evolve Lisp-like programs that are interpreted via > simple, specialized interpreters written in those other languages (C, Java, > whatever).
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