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From: Dizzy Casablanca <Dizzy@interact.net.au>
Subject: AI, security, just wondering.
Date: 1998/11/11
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Date: 1998-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
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  Hello,

  I am just getting into Ada.  I started with Java as a first language
but upon discovering  Ada found her a much friendlier companion.

  I am wondering whether Ada has any AI applications at all ?  I realise
that Ada is employed in various embedded scenarios, however - I was
curious as to whether the language may be employed in some respect with
AI concepts where autonomous embedded systems are required.

  Is Ada not a language which supports AI ?  I don't know if AI relies
on specific data structures and types which are more effectively dealt
with in other languages.  I understand that one can always
port/interface one language to another and that Ada supplies various
solutions (pragmas ?) for this.  So one could, I guess, port Ada to an
AI system in another language... but can Ada itself be applied to AI
problems ?

  I am interested in this type of thing, and eventually hope to develop
the savvy to deal with it in source code.

  One last issue, - I have noticed that thre are compilers available to
compile Java bytecode with Ada.  My knowledge is admittedly limited, but
I am wondering if this doesn't introduce additional security issues...
can Ada compiled into Java class files do things which java could not
itself do, and get around the limitations on applets in browsers ?  Or
does the fact that ada is being used not change the security thing at
all ?  I have much to learn, so I am uncertain about these things.

  I am a *sigh* newbie... I guess... in this field at least... but this
is what I am wondering about, and this forum is the place to ask, I
guess... so please let me know.  Thanks

  Graeme Wallace.

dizzy@interact.net.au



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