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From: Michael Grant <msgrant@cee.hw.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Lisp versus C++ for AI. software
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:40:28 GMT
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A long time ago, on a Usenet far, far away, William Sobel scribed:
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>bernhard@saturn.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Bernhard Pfahringer) writes:
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>> What incentive does a C++ programmer have for learning Lisp?
>
>Emacs...

FWIW I have implemented a GP system in Emacs Lisp (don't ask why.
Alright, *do* ask why then!) and am about to implement another in
C++. Hopefully this should give me a good idea of the relative benefits...

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