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8:22:41
shrdlu68
LdBeth: Who are "IRINA people"? Herbert Simon and Allen Newell also resisted the calling what they were doing "Artificial Intelligence", preferring to use "Information Processing", but there's a funny story about how their work was received at the 1956 Dartmouth conference.
9:04:21
aeth
to have "artificial intelligence" you have to define "intelligence" so I can see why people would prefer another term, if that was their reasoning.
9:20:00
shrdlu68
Ah, that would also include Simon & Newell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist
16:12:55
pjb
You cannot define methods on system objects or build-in objects. Basically, you may define methods only on your own objects.
16:14:25
pjb
(defgeneric my-print (object stream) (:method (object stream) (print object stream))) and then add methods at will.
16:22:10
selwyn
in particular, not following the prescriptions regarding *print-circle* could lead to an otherwise unexpected unbounded amount of output to the printer which could, for example, break a REPL session
16:30:10
selwyn
no problem. well, actually i am not so sure about my most recent argument. but avoiding undefined behaviour is certainly reason enough to follow the rules.