From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a335a9b2bdf7d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: AI, security, just wondering. Date: 1998/11/14 Message-ID: <72inmn$90h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 411620927 References: <36484B8C.84EEC61D@interact.net.au> <36484595.1189@ddre.dk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Nov 14 01:51:19 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jon S Anthony 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own