[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) wrote:
>On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:49:22AM -0400, William Thompson wrote:
>> While I hesitate to step into what seems like a religious war
>
>I'm the list admin, so I guess it's my job to step into a religious war. :)
>
>Guys, can we move the advocacy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where it belongs? If
>what you're posting is *really* about the suitability of Perl for AI,
>then feel free to post it, but if it ain't, it shouldn't be here.
I've been reading these threads with a vague interest, and it seems to
me that if there's any consensus (which there may not be) it's that Perl
is fun for many AI tasks but not necessarily efficient for the heavy
lifting.
So why don't we do something about it? We would do well to look at
things like PDL, the creaters of which observed that Perl wasn't very
good at large n-dimensional array storage & computation, so they tried
to fix it. I suggest that we either harness modules like that, or
identify some problems that are worth solving and solve them.
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