Hi Ed, > Maybe it's just knowing what'll be possible in 10 years time and being > impatient for it.
The problem is that over twenty years ago when I was at university the Japanese anounced that they would have launched a 5th generation computer language by 1990. They gave up and we are still waiting. Part of the problem is that we are familiar with how easily our brains can perform certain types of thought process so we asssume it must be easy to do on a computer. But our brains work very differently to computers and attempts to mimic the brain have so far been dismal failures. Sadly, I think 10 years will see less progress in software than you hope! Pessimistically, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
