Subj : Re: Chat Room Bots
To   : comp.programming
From : Jyrki Alakuijala
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 10:37 am

Rotes Sapiens wrote:

> Which do you think would better for prog an AI in and why, Python or
> PHP?

Any serious AI project will eventually develop into a computational
science project. There, the speed of computation is often most critical.
Thus, for a serious AI project you need to use C, C++, Fortran, asm
or Ocaml. Speed critical AI-parts, like clustering, neural net
training, pattern matching, genetic algorithms, planning, multi-sensor
integration etc. are usually best implemented in a language that
leads to the fastest implementation, allowing the input or modeling
data to be as complete as possible for the given task.

As a side note, the IRCbot I wrote was not a serious AI project
even though it was implemented in C. C was at time about the only
language I could work with.

If I had to chose from Python and PHP, I would use Python, but
not because of the technical gains in the resulting AI engine, but
just because Python to be in a good agreement with my way of
thinking, whereas Perl is a constant struggle.

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