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From: Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org>
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Subject: Re: Need porting of German AI into Java
Date: 8 Dec 2012 14:08:49 GMT
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Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes:
> It does seem strange. I would have thought Forth would be a good choice
> of language for some types of AI, and any porting would be to other
> versions of Forth, not to such a very different language as Java.

I tried to use Forth in my own AI development.  I tried really,
really hard.  But it just leaves too much "cockpit workload" when
the actual application of itself requires more brain cells than I have.
What strengths Forth still posesses WRT the rest of the world are
down near embedded apps, not up in high level ones.  IMHO.

Andy