/prog/ - Scheme in AI

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 4:46

Why is Scheme a good AI language?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 4:49

>>1
Principle of mutual exclusion. It has to be good at something.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 5:32

>>2
it doesn't work with infinite sets.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 5:44

>>3
Depends on how you represent infinite sets. If you represent sets by their membership predicate, then I don't see why not.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 6:17

>>4
REPRESENT MY ANUS

^{I'm back!}

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 6:39

>>2

Then what is PHP good at?

OH SHIT NIGGER I JUST BROKE Y'ALLS THEORY

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 6:52

>>6
It's the perfect trolling language

NIGGER
back to /b/, please.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 7:03

>>6
Portable websights scripting when client-side isn't an option.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 7:09

>>4
I don't see why not.
i've got bad news for you

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 7:23

>>6
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

It's #3 so it must be good!

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 8:54

If you're thinking in terms of "good AI language" you're not doing anything that could possibly be "good AI." There's nothing that makes Scheme a good AI language.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 9:00

>>10
Wait... Go won their language of the year in 2009? It's not even finished yet.

C winning in 2008 is cute though.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 10:03

>>9
OK then, what is wrong with representing an infinite set by a membership predicate?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 13:56

>>13
Why do I get the feeling that Zombie Bertrand Russell is about to become topical?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 14:42

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with reddit, it's a fuckshit storm full of titmorons. I need to leave it.. but one problem is there is ocasionally really good stuff on it. I don't' know what to do /prog/. help?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 14:43

what language was Cabal writen in?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 14:46

>>16
there is no cabal

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 14:47

>>17
then how do make one?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 14:52

scheme is not a good AI. CL is.

>>15
Keep a lot of reddit buddies in your AIM. They'll share the good stuff with you without the need to browse the website.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 15:32

Ok, let's go back to the past.

Why was Lisp originally considered to be good for AI?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 15:36

>>20
Probably because it was one of the best high-level languages around that time, allowed symbolic manipulation and because it was a (programmable) programming language. In short, it was likely the most powerful language they had at that time, but I still wonder if there's any more powerful programming languages these days (if you count all the language extension libs and all the ways in which you can extend it yourself with little effort).

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 15:41

Maybe because it was invented by the same guy who invented the term "Artificial Intelligence".

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 17:08

>>22
Lisp wasn't invented, it was discovered. McCarthy only discovered one of the minimal forms for homoiconic programming languages. If you take that, remove a few things from it, you get the base core which is present in one way or the other in all Lisps, and around those core concepts the other 99% of the language is built.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 17:20

>>23
Fantastic.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 19:05

>>23
This reminds me of a blog post by Kenny Tilton
No, the only reason ZenLisp exists is because Lisp is a venus flytrap of a blackhole delivered by John McCarthy an alien from outer space sent to stop good programmers from Actually Programming. Apparently Grace Hopper was just a few lines of code away from anti-gravity and time travel so They sent John down with Lisp so any good programmer would get so excited about the language itself they would stop programming time-travel applications, take out their CodeWarrior CDs, and start implementing a Lisp using (wait for it) C.

Scheme in AI

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