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Date:Mon Dec 5 05:34:15 1999 
Subject:Re: Announcing GOSPL 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:991205.03 

[To reply replace "Aaron.Sloman.XX" with "A.Sloman"]

steve@watchfield.com ("Stephen F. K. Leach") writes:

> Relayed through cs.bham.ac.uk MAIL->NEWS gateway
> Date: 3 Dec 1999 16:47:31 GMT
>
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |                Global Open Source Poplog Library                     |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> This is a short message announcing GOSPL, our collection of open source
> Poplog code at
>
> 	http://www.poplog.org/gospl/


I have put a pointer to the GOSPL directory in the freepoplog overview
file

	http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
or
	ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/freepoplog.html

In the contents list at the top it refers to "resources" rather than
"sources", in case people think it merely duplicates the sources in
the freepoplog directory.

The old Poplog contrib stuff is in the poplog directory as

	ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/contrib.tar.gz

(or http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/contrib.tar.gz )

Also browsable at
	http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/contrib/

Perhaps one of the most useful things there is the collection of
programming examples from the Gazdar and Mellish books on Natural
Language Processing (in Pop-11, Lisp and Prolog) in the nlp_book
subdirectory:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/contrib/nlp_book/

Some of the other stuff in the contrib directory is now included in
poplog (e.g. the Lisp CLX library ported to poplog). So it should
probably be removed from the contrib directory when I have time.

Another useful subdirectory for students is

    contrib/pop11/ct_book/

which contains code examples and help and teach files to go with:

    Sharples, M., Hogg, D., Hutchison, C., Torrance, C. and
    Young, D.
        "Computers and Thought: a Practical Introduction to
        Artificial Intelligence".
        MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1989.

This book is very popular with beginners learning AI programming
in Pop-11 (though like much else in the contrib directory the
pop-11 examples were written before it became common to use
lexically scoped local variables).


Aaron
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