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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: histrionics
Date: 1999/09/10
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In article <7r9rkj$g75$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> US experts in expert systems were unconvinced, and considered
> LISP a better choice. That opinion has not significantly
> changed, although you probably find more expert systems written
> in "conventional" languages like C or Ada these days than
> before.

While taking my AI class last summer, it occurred to me that inference
engines share a number of similarities with compilers. There are
differences too of course. But it might be possible to use an
OpenToken-style approach to create a general Ada inference engine and
rule-based-system whose rules could be programmed entirely in Ada.

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T.E.D.


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