Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

[email protected] (Terrence Monroe Brannon) Thu, 24 May 2001 07:46:04 -0700

Newsgroups	perl.ai
Organization	Oracle Applications Integration (ARU)
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Lee Goddard wrote:

> 
> As to doing AI in Perl - you're really much better
> off starting in PROLOG, POP-11, or LISP (in order of
> my personal preference), and then transferring to a
> high-power language like C++ and (ha!) Java.
> 
> Perl is, to my mind, for all of it's syntactic
> openness, far too slow for any AI projects involving
> standard techniques like Artificial Neural Networks
> or Genetic Algorithms.

One of the most popular programs ever at www.perlmonks.org is a genetic
program

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=31147&lastnode_id=9066