<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing --> <!--X-From-R13: ptNnzv-pt.UenlEntr.Sqzbagba.OP.QO (Quevf Uenl) --> <!--X-Date: from babe.globecomm.net [207.51.48.8] by mx01.ca.us.ibm.net id 863889459.46146-1 Sat May 17 17:17:39 1997 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 9705171702.80k7@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00528.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00529.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00547.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00579.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00525">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00525">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00525">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#null,net">mud-dev#null,net</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 17 May 97 10:02:28 MST</LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> :The point is that important issues, such as backtracking, are very :easy to solve with the new paradigms you can learn by learning :broad range of languages and tricks used to make those languages :execute fast. Definitely. However, it would be a mistake to assume that many of the techniques are necessarily *new* to the current round of languages. Backtracking, for example, has been around for about 20 years (guessing). I first saw it in the pattern matching of SNOBOL, and Griswald (sp?) expanded it in Icon. I did a lot of reading of AI languages for my thesis, too many years ago. I think there was a language called "POP-4" (or something like that) that I quite liked, and which had lots of nifty ideas. It died out within a year or two, however. I think one of the things I liked was that it had nifty constructs embedded in a language with a fairly standard syntax. Try as I might, I have never found myself as proficient (especially when trying to read someone else's code!) in a language with a non-standard syntax, as I am in one with fairly vanilla syntax. -- Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00579" HREF="msg00579.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> silovic#srce,hr (Miroslav Silovic)</li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00528.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Verb binding</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00529.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00547.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00579.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00525"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00525"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00462" HREF="msg00462.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 14 May 1997, 21:57 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00506" HREF="msg00506.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 17 May 1997, 00:31 GMT </LI> </UL> <UL> <li><Possible follow-up(s)><br> <LI><strong><A NAME="00520" HREF="msg00520.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 17 May 1997, 13:02 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00547" HREF="msg00547.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sun 18 May 1997, 04:48 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00525" HREF="msg00525.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 18 May 1997, 00:17 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00579" HREF="msg00579.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 08:55 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00562" HREF="msg00562.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 00:17 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00638" HREF="msg00638.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 03:30 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00815" HREF="msg00815.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>, Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 04:52 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>