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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: lisp
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:19:12 GMT
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In article <4ktj6mINNph6@duncan.cs.utk.edu> ma@cs.utk.edu (Norman Ma) writes:
[... God programs in Lisp ]
>An allegory to Paradise Lost? I love it! Lisp is a fairly 
>idealistic language.  One of the projects I was involved with 
>had its intelligence encoded in Lisp, unfortunetely
>it had to interface to a simulater written in C; the interface
>code took more than 50% of the LOC count!  We had to rewrite the
>whole thing in C.

Hmm, we interface Lisp to C quite frequently, and don't find it all
that difficult. And in fact the majority of the work is for
intelligent simulation systems. So your experience is different than
mine. 
					- Marty

Lisp Info: http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html
