Thread: AI Programming language

Originally Posted by Elysia

What does manage RAM usage mean?
You use what resources you need and free them when you don't need them. Otherwise you get a memory leak.
Do you have to do memory management manually in C++? No, you can use smart pointers to handle that for you.

Well I've installed and used quite a few programs and what I've noticed is that some of them use up quite a bit of resources and some don't. I noticed that the reason for the Mac OS being so fast and efficient is the fact that its designed to use the least amount of processes for a given task, making the resource usage low.
I wanted to know if that was possible in C++.

Originally Posted by Elysia

The applications themselves are responsible for the memory usage. If they allocate a lot of memory, then of course those digits rise.
This has nothing to do with language and all about how memory hungry your program is - and it is as memory hungry as you design it to be.

Thanks for the clarification. Do you think its wise to study C and then move to C++ or just straight away go to C++ at once?

Considering development time is not an issue with me (as this is a personal hobby project) and my program will be something of a robot like thing.

That really doesn't narrow down what you are going to do with it. AI is a pretty broad term.

Things like motor control, sensor inputs, timers, etc should probably be done in C. Now depending on what you are going to do with it a higher level language might be useful for higher level functions. Prolog might be a good one to check out as it is designed around logic, but that depends heavily on the processor power and time requirements.

One thing I would definitely do is to ignore Elysia in any C vs C++ debates. He/she/it apparently can not see that there are times when C is the best language to use for a given situation.

Thank you for proving my point.