Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)

One of the top 5 programming books. Old AI is today's bleeding edge computer engineering. There is an enourmous amount of free lunches for computer engineers and software startups in the old school artificial intelligence. * modern SAT solver performance is impressive. They can solve huge problems. * Writing a complex systems configurator with Prolog or Datalog can be like magic. * Expert systems. There has never been so much use for them than today. Whenever you see expensive systems…

This book is timeless classic that is not getting old. It's basically two things: * Learn to program book written in very basic old school Common Lisp. Or, learn to program after you already know how to program. If you never really dwell deeply into code that others write to improve your own skills this is good book so start. It's programming as art or literature. * Overview of some old AI techniques, interpreters and parsers. Old AI techniques are…

Ah, PAIP... it's such a wonderful book! I highly recommend aspiring programmers to read it even if they don't care about Lisp or AI; the sheer amount of common programming wisdom in this book is priceless.