Using JVM stack has an advantage of being able to write code in Scala or Clojure too. I guess Clojure would fit because Scheme is already being used. It does have some differences though, so it wouldn't be a seamless transition.
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:01:08 UTC+2, linas wrote: > > The prefered language is atomese. http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Atomese > The wiki mentions runtime efficiency problems of Atmospace - do you plan to go for that Agda implementation or do you have something else planned? > > scheme is there for accidental historical reasons, it just happens to be a > really good fit for typed hypergraphs. Java is a terrible fit, it doesn't > have this concept. Javascript feels like it might fit well. Python is > awkward -- again, cause both python and java are procedural languages, not > functional, and thus have no concept of hierarchy or recursion or any > graph-like structure. > > The atomspace is defacto implemented in c++ partly for historical reasons, > and partly because that provides OK performance. > > --linas > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Ed Pell <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Yes! I love it when people give definite answers. >> >> So, just to check, the preferred language is Scheme? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "opencog" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/0a580a06-c43a-487c-8a89-3d86b0ce537b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/0a580a06-c43a-487c-8a89-3d86b0ce537b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/9198c298-499c-4523-a97a-4b76a1f34551%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
