From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: AI, security, just wondering.
Date: 1998/11/12
Date: 1998-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uf1zn88ijz.fsf@synquiry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-1211980950340001@dale.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au
> Backward-chaining expert system shell
> Forward-chaining expert system shell
> Frames database
> Natural language parser
> Augmented Transition Network Parser
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.
--
Jon Anthony
Synquiry Technologies, Ltd. Belmont, MA 02478, 617.484.3383
"Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately,
Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-11 0:00 AI, security, just wondering Dizzy Casablanca
1998-11-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-11-10 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1998-11-12 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-11-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1998-11-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Art Duncan
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-11-10 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
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