RE: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

> On Thu, 24 May 2001, John Porter wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:46:00 -0500,
> > > in <[email protected]>
> > > John Porter wrote:
> > > > I'd like to say a little something from my own experience with doing
> > > > GA/GP in Perl:  Don't.  That is, unless you're just doing
> it for fun,
> > > > to see how it might look if written in Perl.  If you're expecting to
> > > > evolve (:-) a useful, production-quality system, think hard about
> > > > your performance requirements.  To do a GA/GP system really requires
>
> Yeah, well for me it is more about concepts rather than serious
> implementation. I've been hacking perl for half-a-dozen years and be
> damned learning PROLOG just for the odd occasion i want to dabble in AI
> stuff. Of course, if one day i join the ranks of the 1337 AI programmers
> and find myself building the most k-rad killer AI app then i prolly
> will look at languages other than perl.

Hey, do PROLOG in Perl!  It's a piece of cake:

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Prolog-alpha