Re: AI, security, just wondering.

[dewarr@my-dejanews.com]

In article <uf1zn88ijz.fsf@synquiry.com>,
  Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com> wrote:
> You can write anything in anything - theoretically.  But
you would be
> digging yourself a large hole for no good reason doing
this sort of
> stuff in Ada.  For example, you can write a reasonbly
featured and
> quite reasonably efficient Prolog engine in CL in
something like 4 or
> 5 pages of (well structured and layed out) code.  An ATN
is only about
> a page or so (for examples of both see Paul Grahm's On
Lisp).  I'm
> talking about something that's actually useable and
useful - not just
> a simple toy.  As a reasonable estimate, doing the same
thing in Ada
> would be >> 10 times the effort (though maybe not quite
100 times).
> What's more it wouldn't be much more efficient - if any.


This is complete nonsense in my view, it is perfectly
reasonable to program AI problems in Ada. Even if you
did wish to do it by first writing a prolog interpretor
(an extremely dubious proposition), it is absurd to say
that a prolog interpretor written in Ada would be much
more than 50 pages of code.

The efficiency claim is also without substance.

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