Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment

Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by qop on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:35PM (#17197695)

Embarrassed question, but where is the code for this? I didn't see a github link or anything. Is it fast? These examples don't really mean much to me if they took several seconds to run, prolog can do most of this already, and its ridiculously fast.

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by CocoaGeek on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:50PM (#17197856)

hey (author here), so the code isn't available as I haven't decided to open source it or not yet. You are correct to point out that it's a LOT slower than more traditional Prolog due, in part, to a different architecture.

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by qop on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:02PM (#17199066)

I didn't mean to offend you! It's an impressive project regardless and you're a blessing to the logic community just for putting it out there!

So I'm curious though, fizz seems to be a fairly forward-looking language. You're probably planning on gpu support or maybe something like verified drivers, eventually? I noticed the http example, and ffbn, etc.

Your Twitter profile is littered with like 80s scifi and stuff like that, so a limb I might venture is you appreciate the notion of what AI used to mean for humanity, as a more generalized tool for problem solving.

I'm very curious what you're up to!

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by CocoaGeek on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:10PM (#17199137)

I wasn't offended and it is a valid question :) And yes, I'm definitely into 80s stuff and GOFAI.

I do plan to have some GPU support (probably by supporting existing ML framework) at some point (sooner if there's demand for it). I also like to explore logical inferences on GPU (but I haven't given it much thought yet).

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by armitron on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:02PM (#17198537)

Prolog has better (simpler, more readable) and more uniform syntax too.

I don't see how yours is an improvement.

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by vanderZwan on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:44PM (#17198922)

I have no stake in the language, but that's not exactly a claim backed up by any arguments.

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by tluyben2 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:20PM (#17201210)

It does mention ‘experimental’; I would not think the author is done or expects anyone to drop Prolog in favor of this just yet...

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Re:Fizz – experimental language and runtime environment by qop on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:38PM (#17199426)

Well but I bet you've read a lot of prolog and its familiar.

Also fizz is only 0.3 I believe. Syntax is an easy change to make that early.

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