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From: vfr750@netcom.com (Will Hartung)
Subject: WAY over my head (Was Re: What to learn: Prolog or Lisp?)
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qobi@eesun.technion.ac.il (Jeffrey Mark Siskind) writes:

>Both Screamer and QobiScheme support constraint-based programming in a Scheme
>or CommonLisp framework. QobiScheme supports finite domain constraints via
>generalized forward checking and arc consistency as well as unification.
>Screamer supports all of these as well as arbitrary numeric constraints over
>integers/rationals/floats using bounds propagation coupled with divide and
>conquer interval splitting. Nothing about constraint-based programming is
>particularly better suited to Prolog, Scheme, Lisp, or any other language.
>The generic lifting transformation to derive CLP languages from Prolog could
>be applied to almost any language.

I love hanging out and lurking in these groups.  I don't think I
understood 50% of this paragraph. I know what the words mean, but
arranged in this particular way, I'm lost. :-)

This isn't a flame, or a troll, or anything else, it's just my
observation. Hanging out here is like sitting in with wine collectors,
another area of complete vocabulary starvation.

But, eventually, I'll learn what was said here, so I can judge later
on whether it's important to me and how I work.

So, if anyone out there is actually feeling unappreciated by "The
Masses(tm)", there are some folks out here who are listening.

Meanwhile, this bit of mass will sit down, shut down, put the blank
look back on my face, and nod enthusiastically when it seems
appropiate.

I'm just glad you're not taking this stuff to E-Mail, and I get to
listen in.

Thanx again for sharing..
-- 
Will Hartung - Rancho Santa Margarita. It's a dry heat. vfr750@netcom.com
1990 VFR750 - VFR=Very Red    "Ho, HaHa, Dodge, Parry, Spin, HA! THRUST!"
1993 Explorer - Cage? Hell, it's a prison.                    -D. Duck
