But wouldn't it be more productive to spend all those programming hours on a project in a langauge that students (a) know, (b) find simple, (c) can get support for, and (d) can actually handle the job?
An old flame this isn't, I really would like to know what the point is. I love Perl, I really do, but Perl5 just does not cut the mustard for AI does it? It's slow. When I was at Sussex, I suggested a few Java students of AI and Evolutionary Systems pick up Perl, and a month later they all told me I was crazy (reasons above). Lee (not flaming) At 22:04 21/01/2002 -0500, John Douglas Porter wrote: >Nathan Torkington wrote: > > http://norvig.com/python/python.html > >Ooh. I am incensed. > >Or I should say, I *was* incensed. > >Now I just think the guy's being foolish, for using Python rather than Java. > >Yes, I am serious. > > >Now, should we/anyone try to do Perl AIMA? > >No. Not, that is, if the goal is to get Norvig to use it instead of Python >for his book. That just ain't going to happen. > >But it would be kinda cool if the Perl equivalents were created and posted >somewhere visible, so that students looking for a Perl implementation as an >alternative to the "official" code would find something. SourceForge would >be perfect. > >-- >John Douglas Porter
