On 6/27/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:03:26AM -0700: [snip] > >Many of the most interesting areas of computing (to me) are > >evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence and simulation. All > >of these feel the need for speed. > > A key issue wrt speed is caching. Never compute something twice. > Functional programming makes caching of results much easier. Same > arguments => same result => use the cache. > > NetKernel (and the WWW) make serious use of this fact. Prolog lives again, eh? -- The problem with prolog is that you need an order of magnitude more comments. Stewart Stremler
I wrote a prolog like language using Forth about twenty years ago. The Forth inner interpeter is almost a prolog engine. A lot of stuff like that here http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/jfar/vol4/index.html And just for chuckles check out this conversation from the past. http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-lpsg/2002-August/003235.html he,he, BobLQ BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
