[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sounds interesting, Allen. Back in the late eighties (when AI was the hot
> topic) I wrote a couple of books about artifitial intelligence, one on Turbo
> Prolog and one on Zone Logic, the only AI application I've ever seen that
> actually works in the real world. In fact, it still works, being the basis
> for many of the machine tool controls that make Saturn cars over in
> Springhill, Tennessee and in various other auto plants worldwide.
>
> Funny you should mention AI now (and I'd certainly love to see your
> application sometime) because I was just thinking in the last few days what
> a GREAT environment Rebol would be to program expert systems in. You might
> still need some Prolog or Lisp components, but using Rebol to interface it
> to the web, ah yes!
>
> --Ralph
A dialect that supports Logic programming (the computing paradigm Prolog
masterfully does)
For example, forward-chaining and back-chaining simplicity would be
nice.
My favorite two AI books consist of Genetic Programming (which Rebol is
perfectly suited
for, and blows Lisp away IMHO for genetic freedom) and another book on
Cybernetics published in 1956.
I personally think AI went dormant due to the 1990's freeze on software
technology advancement.
I think Rebol can unfreeze AI quickly.
Steve Shireman
"Your brain may no longer be the boss..."
in "Everything You Know is Wrong" by Firesign Theatre
