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["Ben Goertzel" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After more thought, I strongly agree with Moshe and Linas that a LISP
flavor is going to be our best bet in terms of making OpenCog
scripting compact and simple

Whether Scheme or some other LISP variant is the best bet is another question

I am personally partial to Scheme syntax ... or at least I was in the
90's when I knew it ... but I feel less strongly about this than about
the preferable-ness of LISP over Python or Ruby for this purpose

ben

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:49 AM, David Hart <hart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [NB: moved thread to opencog-dev list]
>
> For what it's worth, I'll put my hand up for a Python shell and SWIG
> wrappers. The ability to quickly bung things together (like visual analysis
> tools) with python libraries is very compelling.
>
> If it's well documented, can we have a mix of SWIG wrappers and hand-wrapped
> functions for the things that SWIG doesn't do nicely or optimally?
>
> I also like the idea of python-based cognitive architecture files
> (basically, the primary OpenCog config file, a python script used to
> bootstrap a CogServer), once enough of the parts are pluggable.
>
> Thoughts? /me sprays on flame retardant
>
> -dave
>
>
>
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