The Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and its interpreter, plus the Artificial Intelligence Transfer Protocol (AITP), are documented in . [BotSpot Report, 01Jun98.]

"Artificial Intelligence Search Techniques in Java" is an online document with Java source code for depth-first and breadth-first searches. . BotSpot, 01Dec98.]

Mercury is an efficient new logic/functional programming language that combines the clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error detection. Speed is close to conventional programming languages. Modularity aids large-scale program development. . [BotSpot, 01Dec98.]

David McClain says that modern functional languages such as ML, Haskell, CLEAN, Erlang, Lisp, and Dylan far outperformed conventional languages in a major study of scientific numerical modeling. "In fact, the ML version works and the conventional ones don't!" . [, comp.lang.lisp, 02Jan99.]

Scheme Requests for Implementation (SRFI) is a forum or process for helping Scheme users write portable code, especially libraries with uniform interface conventions. Planned SRFIs include list handling, records, exception handling, foreign function interfaces, and object systems. . [Michael Sperber , comp.lang.scheme, 04Jan99.]