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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by derefr on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:08PM (#14354491)
Would a modern Prolog (those things + automatic backtracking) or Erlang (those things + cheap actors) have been seen as even better for such purposes, if they had had it at the time?
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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by paulrpotts on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:36AM (#14358800)
Having looked at the source for SHRDLU (which I found very hard to understand without more context), I think a lot of it was in an early version of Prolog, "Micro-Planner."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planner_(programming_language)

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