Yea, you're right, it was spelled Forth. Operated similar to the RPN
calculators of HP. Really wasn't much different than writing functions
that had all parameters on the stack and left results on the stack. I
have a book called "Starting FORTH" by Leo Brodie. Was published in
1981. I can tell I read part of it, but I can't recall doing any
programming in it.
Stan
On 11/20/2014 09:05 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
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
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