NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis) (06/08/88)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 88 11:01:04 HOE To: AILIST@ai.ai.mit.edu From: ALFONSEC%EMDCCI11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Comment: CROSSNET mail via SMTP@INTERBIT Date: Tue, 7 Jun 88 11:00 EDT From: "EARN, Manuel Alfonseca" <ALFONSEC@EMDCCI11> To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU at EDU Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence Languages In AIList Digest Friday, 3 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 16 Ed King mentions a list of features an AI language must have: < 1) True linked list capability. < < 2) Easy access to hardware < < 3) Easy to use string functions, or a library to do such. < <So, by this criteria, all the commonly held "AI languages" would fit <(like PROLOG, LISP, POP, et cetera ad nauseum). Please add APL2. It has all of the above plus supporting frames as a basic data structure. After all, a frame is nothing but a matrix of complex objects. Object oriented programming is also trivial in APL2. Regards, Manuel Alfonseca, ALFONSEC at EMDCCI11