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From: brian@microsup14.ucc.su.oz.au (Brian Spilsbury)
Subject: Re: AL not for amateurs anymore (Re: Scientific American Frontiers)
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Jrg Heitktter (jh@Germany.EU.net) wrote:

: However, the trick is to find a smart (non-LISP) representation for a
: workstation-like platfom. Any volunteers?

 Just from curiosity, what's wrong with lisp? It is my language of choice
for ai/al research. With a decent object system (not CLOS), it makes
life easy, and is as fast as you can get for self-modifying high level
code which is easily extensible.

 If there are good reasons for not using lisp, I'd be interested, especially
if I'm wasting my time using it.
