Do you mean the stack manipulation language Forth? I fondly remember programming that on my Atari 400 back in 1980 or so ;-)
ben On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Stanley Nilsen via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/17/2014 10:02 AM, Jim Bromer via AGI wrote: >> >> >> This is just a thought experiment now but it is something that I am >> thinking might be worthwhile trying and which I will use in at least a >> limited way in the program I am working on. So then the 'user' would program >> the program to construct relations between the objects of the language. The >> idea of using a program to write a program may seem unusual to the >> non-programmers who might read this but it is the way it works. But then, >> just as a programming language is used to program a computer, I am saying >> that the artificial language that could be defined by the 'user' would then >> also be used to 'program' the computer to use knowledge that was input and >> shared with it. Of course, if I wrote such a program I would be able to >> define the artificial language as I went (as the 'user') with the central >> ideas that I have in mind. Not everyone would be able to do that. Using the >> program (to define and use an artificial AI language that I have in mind) >> would require specialized training. But that is also true of programming >> languages (the programs that implement the programming languages.) Not >> everyone gets programming. >> > > Jim, did you ever dabble with "Fourth" in your career? As I read the way > your new language would work, it reminded me of fourth. Fourth came on the > scene early in the history of personal computers. I once considered it as a > possible alternative to building the CPM bios kernel for an operating > system. Fourth offered a quick way to get a system running. > > My vague recollection is that in Fourth one defines new words that then make > it easier to do the thing you wanted to do - build the application. I read > that the astronomy crowd took up with forth. I didn't ever do much with > fourth and I wouldn't suggest it for AI, or reject it (mentiflex) Fourth > was the first language I heard described as "extensible," but I'm not sure > the tag was appropriate. > > Stan > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
