#AI on Amiga
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I'm changing the thread from 68020 boards to 'AI.' Is the reason an AI student
would want Golden Common Lisp rather than, say, Icon, that there are lots of
libraries available for Golden Common Lisp? Is it tradition? Is it
performance?
My experience with Lisp machines is limited to talking with their manufacturers
at computer shows, but it was my impression that a very fast fixed disk in fast
memory would outperform a fast fixed disk in very fast memory.
I like the LISP programming environment present on many of the LISP machines.
In any case, I like LISP for many reasons, among them are that I know how
to program in LISP; I like the "data is program and program is data" ideas
that LISP embodies. A lot of AI programs are written in LISP and I find it
easier to prototype programs in LISP than other languages.
Icon isn't bad, but again, the Amiga implementation isn't very fast. Besides,
I kinda liked Snobol 4. I don't know Icon very well; I don't have the time
to learn it right now.
At least the Amiga has some good C compilers.
Winston
Hmmm… I wrote a small 'search' program in Icon, and it outperforms the
supplied Amigados 'search' by a significant amount.
I admit I haven't seen many Lisps, but the ones I have are slow in the extreme.
Regards, Larry.
Hi,
Pardon me for intruding on your thread. I have been using XLisp on my Amiga.
Do you know how it compares to Cambridge Lisp or any of the other commercial
products? I'm interested in benchmarks, implementation differences, etc.
Thanks,
Rick
Rick,
Sorry, I have only messed with XLisp and Metacomco's on the Amiga, and
neither for extended periods (Lisp isn't one of my strong points).
Regards, Larry.
When you say you like the LISP programming environment present on many
machines, I don't know what you mean. Is it an interactive editor? De-bugging
facilities? Checkpointing? Tracing? Machine-level monitors?
I'm not in a position to purchase a bunch of MS-DOS Lisps, try them out on an
AT, and figure out what makes them attractive.
I'd suspect that dual-processing Lisp, with your favorite environment on an
A2000 bridgeboard running as an inference engine, but displaying results etc
within AmigaDOS would give interesting performance.
Is the main problem with Icon as an AI language is that people haven't learned
it? I'm using Snobol4 live now in a text-formatting application so I know what
you mean about the data-is-program flavor.