[cells-devel] Logic Programming in Cells

[Frank Goenninger DG1SBG]

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Thomas,

Am 24.05.2005 um 17:46 schrieb Thomas F. Burdick:

> I was looking to build a Prolog-ish logic-programming layer on top of
> Cells, and looking at how to do this, it looks like basic support
> could be added to Cells itself pretty easily.  Here's what I'm
> thinking.  We add a new type of Cell, let's call it a Generator.  Data
> propogation proceeds as usual, but when we get to a Generator, we mark
> this on a stack.  If evaluation of some formula calls FAIL, we go back
> to the last Generator, evaluate it again, and resume data propogation
> from there.  Any pending inputs from code that was backtracked over
> would of course be thrown out.

Fits nicely with what I want to do also. I need to implement a Neural  
Net and this would be a real good start I think. Need to do analyzing  
CAD data and do automatic classification of the contents. ... Go  
ahead! ;-)

>
> Any thoughts?  It's a holiday here on thursday, so I'm thinking about
> hacking on this then.

Some of the nicer aspects of living in Germany - a load of public  
holidays.

With best wishes from Stuttgart

     Frank

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