Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages
What is artificial intelligence programming?
It was a few decades ago that we first heard about artificial intelligence. It was a concept forwarded by many front-line scientific fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clerk. At that point of time of the history, humans never thought that the dream of 'artificial intelligence' would come true. In fact, the dream of artificial intelligence started to materialize about a decade ago, thanks to the dedication of a few scientists in the field of AI (Artificial intelligence). They developed advanced concepts to look at artificial intelligence a brand new way while introducing new languages and tools for artificial intelligence programming.
Since artificial intelligence was something to do with robotics and hardware, the scientists did not really focus on developing tools and programming languages that are easy to be used by the ordinary programmers. When artificial intelligence was started spreading in to the rest of the fields such as networking, enterprise business solutions, stock market applications, it was required for regular programmers to be able to do artificial intelligence programming.
The languages used for artificial intelligence programming
Lisp
This is one of the most famous artificial intelligence programming languages introduced to the world of AI. First introduced by John McCarthy in 1950s, Lisp is been used up to today as it is adoptable for the AI problems that are encountered in this era. Lisp is based on mathematical function theory and lambda abstraction.
After Lisp era, which was up to mid 1970s, the artificial intelligence programming paradigm was changed. The core of the programming paradigm was changed from mathematical functions to logic programming with predicate calculus.
Lisp has been widely used in the AI fields of natural language understanding, machine learning, genetic programming, information extraction, and AI planning.
Meta-Language
Meta-Language (ML) is a static scoped artificial programming language. It behaves same as Lisp, but the syntax is completely different. The syntax of ML is more related to Pascal programming language which is used for regular functional programming.
HASKEEL
This artificial intelligence programming language is similar to ML in terms of syntax, but differs in the structure. HASKEEL is a pure functional programming language where it does not have ant variable declaration or assignment statements.
Prolog
In 1970s, the artificial intelligence programming paradigm was change from functional to logical. Prolog was the first brain child of logical artificial intelligence programming. Up to now, Prolog is considered as the most influential and widely used artificial programming language in use.