From: geb@cadre.UUCP
Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 09:13:15 EST [thread overview]
Date: Wed Mar 6 09:13:15 1985
Message-ID: <350@cadre.ARPA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7016@watdaisy.UUCP
>I thus stand by my original claim that the importance of LISP to AI is
>greatly exaggerated. Not only can one now chose one of the LISP
>offspring such as PROLOG or FORTH, but also if one is writing an actual
>production system one should examine one of the more efficient
>algorithmic languages to see if it is adequate for one's application.
Has FORTH changed since I last looked at it? Then, it didn't
support dynamic variables (like lists of arbitrary length).
I suppose you could write some routines to do that, but then
wouldn't it be like lisp, and need something like gc? Without
dynamic variables, how could you do ai?
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1985-02-14 15:59 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
1985-02-17 1:58 ` Robert Hofkin
1985-02-17 16:36 ` g-frank
1985-02-18 5:18 ` Skef Wholey
1985-02-18 14:33 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-02-19 19:09 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-02-22 2:21 ` LISP &c (re: the DoD...) Thomas M. Breuel
1985-02-25 17:08 ` Thus spake the DoD Jan Steinman
1985-02-26 23:20 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-02-27 19:22 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-03-01 19:30 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-01 20:13 ` neves
1985-03-02 4:33 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1985-03-02 18:35 ` Efficiency of LISP Marty Sasaki
1985-03-03 0:23 ` Language criticism Greg Davidson
1985-03-06 14:13 ` geb [this message]
1985-02-28 3:16 ` Thus spake the DoD David Schachter
1985-03-01 19:00 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-03 3:08 ` Joaquim Martillo
1985-03-03 6:12 ` T J Jardine
1985-03-05 16:55 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-05 21:07 ` Robert A. Pease
1985-03-12 1:47 ` Ed Colbert
1985-03-13 19:35 ` Monique M Taylor
1985-03-17 19:49 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-21 1:17 ` faustus
1985-03-12 0:25 ` Efficiency of LISP Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-12 2:11 ` Efficiency of numerical Lisp code (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-13 7:05 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-03-13 20:00 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-14 10:12 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-15 0:27 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-16 0:59 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-17 18:58 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-18 5:02 ` Multi-language systems Marty Sasaki
1985-03-20 17:01 ` Tom Slack
1985-03-18 21:24 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Tim Maroney
1985-03-19 6:45 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? Barry Margolin
1985-03-19 17:35 ` Speed of Lisp numerical code Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-20 21:04 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? T J Jardine
1985-03-22 2:10 ` Joe Orost
1985-03-19 16:15 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Bill Henneman
1985-03-19 3:40 ` Norman Diamond
1985-03-18 3:01 ` Common Lisp and Arrays Joaquim Martillo
1985-02-18 23:49 ` Thus spake the DoD M.Fischer
1985-03-14 20:50 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-15 15:42 ` Stanley Shebs
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1985-02-15 14:34 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
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