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Even though I’m a Business Systems developer, I’m not entirely happy with the way we go about with our applications. For a long time “Knowledge” and “Intelligence ” was always in my menu as favourites. Once I tried a very small Neural Network Application to try and predict stock market behaviour. Even though I did not have all the Data required th train the network (Neural Network training is a painstaking job) i enjoyed what I did. Today I came across this website http://www.makhfi.com/ .

I liked the simple presentation of key things. Also as a C# developer this is interesting to me. A C# class library with a Neural Net generating tool is always welcome.

http://franck.fleurey.free.fr/NeuralNetwork/index.htm

Programming is such a complex business these days that no one language, platform or even a paradigm can solve all problems which needs an automated solution. Structured and Object Oriented Paradigms have evolved over the years with great language support.

But there are instances where these techniques are not quite good enough, for example take a situation where you need to code heuristics of a human professional. This is a unique situation requiring a different programming technique.
This is where Logic Programming comes.Prolog and LISP are the two predominant languages in this arena. This blog entry is all about Visual Prolog by PDC. You will find a wealth of information here. Also sice I’m a .NET developer this is what really interested me. Visual Prolog is in my view a Hybrid which captures the best in both worlds. (Logic & OOP) I will do more work on this and hopefully publish the proceedings in the comming days,months here. Till then Happy Coding…….I’m leaving to Kandy.