Forth! FORTH!
You should be doing this in Cobol!!
Mentifex wrote in message <3660af12.0 at news.victoria.tc.ca>...
>>CODING FUNCTIONALITY BEYOND THE 28.MAY.1998 LEVEL
>>As of Tues.24.Nov.1998, the "AI in 30K" Mind.forth has been keyed
>in so as to reconstitute the functionality of the 90-screen Mind.-
>forth from Thurs.28.May.1998 and any changes made in June of 1998
>have simply been abandoned, for the time being.
>>The 30K Mind.forth is the most "diagnostic" to date. Within each
>diagnostic message, it shows the actual screen-number of the sub-
>routine which is reporting a status. The explicit identification
>of each screen enables the Forth programmer to call up any prob-
>lematical screen in order to attack any problem as soon as it be-
>comes evident. Within the tight, carefully coded, 30K Mind.forth,
>the screen-numbers are neither likely to change because of "drift,"
>nor difficult to change when there are only thirty screen numbers
>to worry about.
>>In order to advance the state of the art in Mind.forth beyond its
>May or June of 1998 level, we now run the program in order to as-
>certain the chief obvious glitch ("COG"). Right now the COG is
>that EXAMINE SCR #17 is reporting garbage instead of clarity for
>the content of the "lexicon{" array in which NEWCONCEPT SCR #9 is
>supposed to be storing each new concept and assigning to it a num-
>ber "n" as a consecutive concept number. Some of the data are a
>row of zeroes, others are obviously RAM address values in Forth,
>and others are inexplicably the positive number "191" or the neg-
>ative number "-192."
>>In the grand tradition of Linus Torvalds as analyzed by Eric S.
>Raymond in http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/>"The Cathedral and the Bazaar," let us try to "harness the collec-
>tive IQ" by reporting our state of the art on Usenet.
>>--
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/ "The Cyborg Syllabus"
>http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ The Mindmaker Project AI for Robots
