mark watson offers a free ebook onPractical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java
mark watson offers a free ebook on
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Javagrab it on is opencontent website.
“Each chapter follows the same pattern: a mo-
tivation for learning a technique, some theory for the technique, and a Java example
program that you can experiment with. “
im just watching the clojure (lisp flavored lang for the JVM) presentations from Rick Hickey.
then i found LFE lisp flavored erlang. i think i already mentioned Tim Burks Nu earlier.
(Rick Hickey also did dotlisp guess what? yup lisp for .net. there are also others e.g. IronLisp) so now we have a lisp for BEAM, JVM and the Objective-C runtime, seems like something that was in the air.
combine: there is a need for a dynamic language which is scalable but still can leverage existing code.
thinking a bit further and adding the other main stream approach to scale these days (virtualization) we get pushed to a new light-weight operating system which supports just a VM and basic IO like TCP/IP.
already with these large scale rails setups we have today, i see no point to have a fully featured OS with a 5+M LOC kernel running just to provide a VM which does just some calculating on proxied data from client data to its persistance.
hmm… erlang for minix 3 anyone?
altough not new i just discovered hecl.
“The Hecl Programming Language is a high-level, open source scripting language implemented in Java. It is intended to be small, extensible, extremely flexible, and easy to learn and use. Infact, it’s small enough that it runs on J2ME-enabled cell phones!”
sounds like fun. http://www.hecl.org/
on to something new and cutting edge, here is reia:
all the goodies from erlang, the lang of ruby and python intendation. can’t wait to try.
meanwhile check: http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language