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0 pointsrdc1211y ago0 comments

That is quite intersting, at one point the main language in AI for Europe was Prolog and in America it was LISP, or so I read. I wonder what other instances this kind of cultural differences occured, and if the internet has had any effect on this.

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lispm11y ago

> AI for Europe was Prolog and in America it was LISP,

I wouldn't say 'main language', but Prolog maybe a little more popular in Europe. The Japanese though based their 'fifth generation' project on logic programming. I once saw a Prolog Machine, a computer with the architecture optimized for Prolog and the main software written in Prolog:

http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/other/0009.html

$119000 a piece...

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