Claude Roux maintains LispE and previously TAMGU at Naver, combining array and logic programming with Haskell features. (N.b. the wiki holds the documentation and articles.) In this interview, we discuss Lisp and Prolog implementations, array languages, symbolic (GOFAI) and neuro-symbolic AI. How did you discover programming, come to pursue a PhD etc.? It’s not exactly a recent adventure; I started in 1980 when my father bought a computer for Christmas. Learning Basic, I faced a lot of problems because I didn’t really speak English, which most of the documentation was written in. I spent a lot of time trying to understand what the set command did (put a cell on the screen, on this machine.) Then I learned to program the Z80 processor in machine language and decided to pursue computer science. I got a masters degree from Paris VI. In 1989, I moved to Montreal and started a PhD in computational linguistics. New symbolic ways of implementing grammars were really hot. I implemented a…
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