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Designing and programming personal expert systems

by Carl Townsend · first published 1986

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  • jhbadger · Mar 7, 2026 · Recommends

    There's a great 1986 book "Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" by Feucht and Townsend that implements expert systems in Forth (and in the process, much of the capability of Prolog and Lisp).

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  • TY · Oct 20, 2010 · Mentions

    I think he probably spoke about "Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" by Carl Townsend that dates back to 1986. From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/forth-faq/part5/ Contains LISP and Prolog emulations in Forth, including a unification algorithm. It also…

    on “Chuck Moore's 144-computers chip is now available” ↗
  • Most people skip straight from the Forth to Fortran[0][1] or Prolog[2]. [0] http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/ftra... [1] "Scientific Forth" (Julian V. Noble, 1992) [2] "Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" (Carl Townsend & Dennis Feucht, TAB Books, 1986)

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