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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:30:42 +0200
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On 4/23/11 2:23 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:50:43 -0700 (PDT), Piotr Trojanek wrote:
>
>> The question is what is your focus in a robotics research? If it is a RT control,
>> than I see no point in not using Ada. If you are interested in AI, then Lisp is
>> probably the way to go.
>
> I always did AI in Ada and see no point in using Lisp for that. There is a
> common opinion that Lisp and Prolog are good for AI, which is as ungrounded
> as the opinion that C is good for drivers. I think that Ada is especially
> good for AI because AI is quite nasty when it comes to testing. Often you
> cannot figure out whether the problem is due to a bug or a logical error.
> Ada sufficiently reduces the bug rate. That helps much.

Would the work have been just a little easier if there
was a plugable standard garbage collector?