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[irneb]

Thinking about it, maybe Google search is a modern day example of what would have been seen as an AI fuzzy logic script back then.

Actually strange that you'd mention a search engine. The Yahoo stores was originally written in Lisp (the "original" AI language of choice): http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonso...w&ixPost=31402

[Justloadit]

Unknowingly, we on a daily basis use AI in our software. We generate algorithms, whose outcome is based on the changing input variables, it's just become second nature that we do not even realise it. I did an algorithm in the late 90's still running today, at predicting the standing time of a bore hole based on past information and current information, and doing a predictive wait for the next time it runs out of water. Never get the same time with every calculation, as the conditions keep changing, so does the predictive standing time.

[AndyD]

And is anyone still using Fortran?

I actually came across a protein folding predictive modelling client that is written in Fortran fairly recently. I also thought it had gone by the wayside as a language, the last time I saw Fortran was on the UK university mainframes in the very early eighties. Turns out it's still widely used for military and educational facilities number crunching grunt work.

[wynn]

I read somewhere that if you take man's development from the first 'homo sapiens' till today and compared it to the distance from Pretoria to Cape Town city hall to city hall, everything after the discovery of fire will fit into the last few steps up to the entrance, computers would be like the dust on top of the top step.