In PHP, C# and may be other languages, why aren't languages developed to reduce writing code that isn't really necessary? Why for example foreach perform a loop on null array or list? I'm not a professional programmer, but I think…
Possible Duplicate: Why is Lisp used for AI? What makes a language suitable for Artificial Intelligence development? I've heard that LISP and Prolog are widely used in this field. What features make them suitable for AI?
I am currently dabbling in expert systems, emacs lisp, and reading up about artificial intelligence. Traditionally, artificial intelligence is associated with LISP and expert systems with CLIPS. However, I have noticed in computational sciences how much Python is being used.…
I used to use pop11 some time ago in the artificial intelligence arena and I'd like to know if anyone out there is using the pop11 programming language commercially now and if so what for?
It wasn't that long ago that I was a beginning coder, trying to find good books/tutorials on languages I wanted to learn. Even still, there are times I need to pick up a language relatively quickly for a new project…