On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting! I have a good friend who is also an AGI enthusiast who > followed the same path as you ... a lot of time burned making his own > superior, stripped-down, AGI-customized variant of LISP, followed by a > decision to just go with LISP ;-)
I'm not surprised :-) > But I thought I'd mention that for OpenCog we are planning on a > cross-language approach. The core system is C++, for scalability and > efficiency reasons, but the MindAgent objects that do the actual AI > algorithms should be creatable in various languages, including Scheme or > LISP. *nods* As you know, I'm of the opinion that C++ is literally the worst possible choice in this context. However... > We can do self-modification of components of the system by coding these > components in LISP or other highly manipulable languages. This is good, and for what it's worth I think the best approach for OpenCog at this stage to aim to stabilize the C++ core as soon as possible, and try to write AI code at the higher level in Lisp, Combo or whatever. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
