Python Vs Scheme shell for interacting w/ opencog

[Apil Tamang]

All,

So from what I know so far, there're at least two ways to interact w/ the cogserver for manipulating atomspace. They'd be the 'Python' and the high-level 'Scheme' shell exposed by default at 18001. My question: which one is generally preferred. I feel like I just see a lot more of the latter. Is there a reason why scheme code is preferred... if that indeed is the case?

[Ben Goertzel]

The Scheme shell is strongly preferred at the moment, because it is
less buggy and better maintained, and because the set of Scheme
bindings is more complete

There's of course a self-reinforcing aspect here: Everyone uses the
Scheme shell because it works better .. and it works better because it
gets better maintained and extended because everyone uses it...

-- Ben

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[Linas Vepstas]

Yep. Also, you don't have to use the shells, either.  You can instead load opencog, as if it were a library, into either scheme or python.   There are two ways to access python: start pyton first, then load opencog, or start the cogserver first, then telnet to port 17001.

For scheme, you have the same two choices, plus a third choice: telnet to port 18001.

I should probably *remove* this third choice, as a smart scheme programmer can do this on their own, if they wish -- its a build in part of the scheme language, and its only a few lines of code.

--linas 

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote:

The Scheme shell is strongly preferred  at the moment, because it is
less buggy and better maintained, and because the set of Scheme
bindings is more complete

There's of course a self-reinforcing aspect here: Everyone uses the
Scheme shell because it works better .. and it works better because it
gets better maintained and extended because everyone uses it...

-- Ben

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Apil Tamang
<apil.tama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
> So from what I know so far, there're at least two ways to interact w/ the
> cogserver for manipulating atomspace. They'd be the 'Python' and the
> high-level 'Scheme' shell exposed by default at 18001. My question: which
> one is generally preferred. I feel like I just see a lot more of the latter.
> Is there a reason why scheme code is preferred... if that indeed is the
> case?
>
>
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