jyoo@elbereth.rutgers.edu (J-S Yoo) (02/25/91)
Hello,
The question is:
I have special interest in AI application on business area.
Which programming language is most dominant in AI programming?
If this newsgroup is inappropriate for the question, my
apologies; do advise me appropriate one(s).
Thank you.mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) (02/26/91)
Applied AI, as far as I can tell, is split between two languages, Lisp and Prolog. Turbo Prolog is a third language, similar but not identical to Prolog, and used for some applications on PCs. Many applications are developed with expert system shells rather than by writing a program. A shell is a software development tool.
sticklen@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (02/26/91)
In article <Feb.25.04.20.38.1991.21407@elbereth.rutgers.edu> jyoo@elbereth.rutgers.edu (J-S Yoo) writes: > >Hello, > The question is: > I have special interest in AI application on business area. > Which programming language is most dominant in AI programming? > > If this newsgroup is inappropriate for the question, my >apologies; do advise me appropriate one(s). > > Thank you. > a suggestion: it might be best to say what kind of problem you are trying to do, then select the tool once you have in hand a desription of what you want to use the tool for. ---jon---
jjacobs@well.sf.ca.us (Jeffrey Jacobs) (02/27/91)
Nobody in business really uses AI "languages" these days, where languages = PROLOG or LISP. Its much more productive to use a shell such as NEXPERT Object or AION's ADS. Jeffrey M. Jacobs ConsArt Systems Inc, Technology & Management Consulting P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 voice: (213)376-3802, E-Mail: 76702.456@COMPUSERVE.COM
aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) (03/02/91)
mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: > Date: 25 Feb 91 17:22:30 GMT > Organization: University of Georgia, Athens > > Applied AI, as far as I can tell, is split between two languages, > Lisp and Prolog. > Several UK companies (and some elsewhere) have used Poplog because they like to be able to mix languages. Poplog provides ML,Prolog, Common Lisp and Pop-11 and allows "external" languages to be linked in, e.g. C, Fortran. Prolog and Pop-11 seem to be the more widely used among Poplog users. (Pop-11 is similar to Lisp in its functionality, but it looks more like Pascal, and is far more compact than most Common Lisp systems.) The most recent example I've heard of is a company called COGSYS Ltd that has developed a real-time expert system development tool, using Pop-11. This is a follow on from the RESCU project, a collaborative Real Time Expert System club involving several UK companies, that used Pop-11 to develop a prototype during the UK Alvey Programme. For more examples of commercial applications, contact the commercial distributors of Poplog: Integral Solutions Ltd Unit 3, Campbell Court Bramley, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG26 5EG England Phone 0256 882028 Fax 0256 882182 Phone +44-256 882028 Fax +44-256 882182 Email isl@integ.uucp or isl@integ.co.uk
mikeb@wdl35.wdl.loral.com (Michael H Bender) (03/05/91)
sticklen@pleiades.cps.msu.edu writes: > In article <Feb.25.04.20.38.1991.21407@elbereth.rutgers.edu> > jyoo@elbereth.rutgers.edu (J-S Yoo) writes: > > > >Hello, > > The question is: > > I have special interest in AI application on business area. > > Which programming language is most dominant in AI programming? > > > > If this newsgroup is inappropriate for the question, my > >apologies; do advise me appropriate one(s). > > > > Thank you. > > > a suggestion: it might be best to say what kind of problem you are trying to > do, then select the tool once you have in hand a desription of what you > want to > use the tool for. > ---jon--- A further suggestion: for most straight-forward expert system applications you should probably consider using an expert system shell instead of programming in Lisp or Prolog. There are very many expert system shells available, which you choose should depend on the nature of your application and your hardware/software. Mike Bender