Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

Gustaf Bjorksten wrote:

> 
> 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.

I just finished reading about the Dutch National Flag problem in "Craft
of Prolog" and how the naive Prolog solution generates all these
permutations and then tests them... hohoho. That's a Perl-one-liner.

But I do love the implementation of a Finite State Automaton in two (?)
lines that I saw in "Art of Prolog"