Pecobians.com :: EXPERT SYSTEM IN A.I.

infinity · 03 Aug 2005

can any 1 tell me which language is best for making an expert system in a.i.
lisp, prolog or matlab.....

also wanna know abt. database connectivity in visual lisp.

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shantanu · 11 Feb 2005

i'd say lisp...but not cuz i have any experience in that but cuz just read that in some text books...

nmadnani · 14 Feb 2005

For working on expert systems, the traditional choices have been functional, instead of imperative, languages like Lisp and Scheme. I would recommend Lisp. Prolog is not as expressive as Lisp and Matlab is good for Linear Algebra and Scientific Computing but not that great for expressing AI constructs.

Don't know anything about Visual Lisp. The only lisp versions I have used are (in order of preference)

1) CMU Common Lisp: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
2) GNU Common Lisp: http://clisp.cons.org/
3) Allegero Lisp: Not free. So no point giving you the URL.

nmadnani · 14 Feb 2005

Actually, if you wanted to design an expert system, I would recommend using the relatively new functional language called Haskell.

Even though Lisp has been traditionally associated with AI programming, the development of the language and any supporting projects (tools/libraries and other resources) has essentially stopped. Haskell, OTOH, is very actively developed and has loads of libraries and bindings. Since you want to know about database connectivity, take a look at the section called "Interfacing with Data Bases" on this webpage: http://www.haskell.org/libraries

I have played around with Haskell a bit and I find it every bit as elegant as Lisp or Scheme.