Eurisko
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Eurisko definition

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)

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