eurisko

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eurisko - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Eurisko
  
     <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)