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Article #1652Re: How to make a language downward-extensible?
From: Sean Fagan
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 20:38
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 20:38
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In article <13224@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes: >* The compiler is supposed to pattern match an algorithm and > select a replacement from a list. > >The first is easy. The second is hard. Yep. That's what makes it so *fun*! (Note that, as far as I'm concerned, doing that for the general case will go a long way towards implementing true AI. At which point, you can probably start just handing specs to your "compiler," and letting it chug out a solution. Scary, isn't it? 8-)) -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and seanf@sco.COM | run away! Death really hates that!" uunet!sco!seanf | -- Dr. Mike Stratford (Matt Frewer, "Doctor, Doctor") (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: How to make a language downward-extensible? Message-ID: <7998@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 3 Oct 90 20:38:27 GMT References: <7935@scolex.sco.COM> <29047:Sep2816:51:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <7950@scolex.sco.COM> <18718:Oct120:03:0090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <7976@scolex.sco.COM> <13224@june.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: seanf (Sean Fagan) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 20