[Somewhat Off Topic] AI Contest

Will Ware wware at world.std.com
Sun Aug 5 21:08:02 EDT 2001


Roman Suzi (rnd at onego.ru) wrote:
> To be good for AI, language must have logic
> programming support. (I wonder if Guido thinks
> in this direction 'cause this requires adding
> new keywords ;-)

It sounds like you just want to add a Prolog-esque
inference engine. Certainly you'd be concerned about
performance; I think inference engines need to try lots
of different possibilities to see which match the
specified conditions. This cries out not for a change
in Python, but a C module. Perhaps it could be cobbled
together out of some existing Prolog implementation.

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