Language peer sets for DL*:
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DL*(ID:3806/dl:001)
alternate simple viewCountry: United States
Designed 1975
for Description Language, extended
Erotetic language, drawing heavily on the notions of LEAP and the GPS.
(Banerji and Ernst were Comfort's "Gurus" according to the preface to his book, and there is an interesting insight into the intellectual prehistory of the work by seenig Banerji's review of Ernst's account of the GPS, see under GPS)
Comfort's book has a critique of PLANNER, CONNIVER, QA4
Related languages
| DL | → | DL* | Evolution of | |
| LEAP | → | DL* | Incorporated features of |
References:
1975
- Comfort (1975) Comfort, John Craig "A Flexible Efficient Computer System To Answer Human Questions - The Dl*-Programming Language For Artificial Intelligence Applications" Interdisciplinary Systems Research - ISR 8 Birkhauser 1975 Abstract Extract: Preface Extract: Introduction Extract: The Structure of the DL* System Extract: A Dl* User's Manual: Introduction Extract: Dl* And Programming Languages Extract: DL* as a Programming Language Extract: DL* and the Others Extract: Conclusions
Resources
- Cover of book
