From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: histrionics
Date: 1999/09/10
Date: 1999-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rtg6mdp71iv13@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7r8c60$b2q$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote in message <7r8c60$b2q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> Prolog is one of
>those languages that has a fascinating idea, but ultimately
>is disappointing ...
There are opinions and opinions :-)
Hope this is not an invitation to start another language flame:-)
As for me I would not blame any existing programming language and state that
it is disappointing.
All of them are evolution outcome and each has it's merits and drawbacks.
No one will use Prolog for writing safety critical applications or
operating systems or number crunching.
But for writing applications that exhibit artificial intelligence it is one
of the best choices.
Especially when one has to extract solutions from facts and rules not known
when original code had been issued. Prolog program can modify itself and
be self learning. Of course it can be done in Ada or even in Basic (by the
way I have a book somewhere shelf on writing AI application using Basic).
Ada is best suited for safety critical control applications and programming
in general.
Prolog is best suited for writing expert systems.
One of the real examples of Prolog in action is the Xircom expert system
for installing Xircom adapters on PC (may be it is not Xircom - I do not
remember exactly the Company name - I remember the idea). Installation
program gathers all the data about PC and user can send it to that expert
system which in turn will analyze all hardware dependencies and
incompatibilities and it will give recommendations regarding best
configuration options.
One may ask why they did not do that in Ada :-)
There are many other examples. I am sure Nick Roberts can supply a lot of
them:-)
The other example that I enjoy very much is Axon2000 Idea processor.
( http://web.singnet.com.sg/~axon2000 ).
One of the best tools to help one's vague ideas to take real shape. Very
cool.
Regards.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 0:00 histrionics G
1999-09-08 0:00 ` histrionics Preben Randhol
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics G
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky [this message]
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Bob Collins
1999-09-12 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-14 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7s2l7b$kmr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
[not found] ` <37E81661.6DCA23E4@mitre.org>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics p.obry
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
[not found] ` <7saju5$6h6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Sums of cubes (was Re: histrionics) Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-23 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
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