MB>> C/C++ to higher level languages, and found that lots of times, Tcl,
 MB>> Perl, Make, and such, are better suited to the task. In your case, the
 MB>> language of choice might be Prolog. Most programmers are only familiar
 BO>  I don't see any easy way of solving this problem with prolog.. Maybe 
you 
 BO> can
 BO> help me formulating an algorithm for that.. Even if I'm no proloh 
expert, 
 BO> I can
 BO> write a C++ backward chaining engine..
I'm no prolog expert either. I got a C- grade in prolog, which is my
lowest mark since i'm at the university. but i think it's rather
because i don't like the course, not because i don't like the language.
 MB>> Two or three years ago my favorite languages were Basic and 8086
 MB>> intel-style assembly language (as opposed to unix-style syntax)...
 BO>  :) poor mathieu.. It must have been a boring life..
Well, it has been kinda fun. but now it's not fun anymore.
 BO>>> I considered a NN solution similar to solution of TS problem with
 BO>>> a Hopfield network but could not really formulate it. Note: I'm
 BO>>> neither a computer engineering nor a mathematics student, so
 BO>>> please try to keep your answer simple in terms of jargon.
 MB>> You're using quite a bit of jargon yourself :-) (as far as obscure
 MB>> abbreviations go)
 BO> AI (Artificial intelligence) thing that NN, and 'hopfield network' type 
 BO> of
 BO> words seems like basic stuff to me.. BTW NN is the YABA for 'Neural 
 BO> networks'
 BO> (YABA= yet another bloody acronym).. TS stands for 'travelling salesman'
I know travelling salesman. We were calling it 'problŠme du
commis-voyageur' in Algorithmique I. :-) The rest is unknown to me.
 BO> answer to be sought, I suppose.. I need an approximate solution, or else 
 BO> I have
 BO> to wait for thousands of years to try all possibilities (well, a good 
 BO> algorithm
 BO> may only require a few years or so, still...)
Okay, so stick to C++ (or something easier and more foolproof than
that)
 BO>  math stuff? The only maths in my message is in the subject 'cause it 
 BO> makes the
 BO> message look like an expert one.. Ofcourse, if I hadn't have the typo 
 BO> there
 BO> (Bipartitate for Bipartate) :)
Well, 'math' to me include most of informatics, i.e. computer science.
 MB>> this message might be useless. :-)
 BO>  Be sure you have helped me, at least now I know someone have read at 
 BO> least one
 BO> message by me.. Thanks..
:-)
matju
 BO> ... Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be SysOp's
lol!
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