eurisko

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<artificial intelligence> A language for "opportunistic programming" written by Doug Lenat in 1978. Eurisko constructs its own methods and modifies its strategies as it tries to solve a problem.

(http://homepages.enterprise.net/hibou/aicourse/lenat.txt).

[Mentioned by Alan Kay, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3), March 1993, p. 88].

(1994-12-08)