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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 18:20:38 EST	[thread overview]
Date: Tue Feb 26 18:20:38 1985
Message-ID: <3223@utah-cs.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6982@watdaisy.UUCP

>
>I think that far too much emphasis has been placed on the need for LISP
>in AI work.  The things that were novel when LISP was introduced are
>not so rare anymore.  Most AI programs written in LISP could be written
>equally well or better in other languages.

The way we say it around here is "most programs written in *other* languages
could be written better in Lisp" - that includes work in VLSI, graphics,
compilers, algebra, and suchlike.  Name me ONE thing that Pascal or Ada
does better than Lisp (besides `confuse and frustrate the programmer')...

							stan shebs

  parent reply	other threads:[~1985-02-26 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1985-02-14 15:59 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
1985-02-17  1:58 ` Robert Hofkin
1985-02-17 16:36 ` g-frank
1985-02-18  5:18   ` Skef Wholey
1985-02-18 14:33 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-02-19 19:09   ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-02-22  2:21     ` LISP &c (re: the DoD...) Thomas M. Breuel
1985-02-25 17:08     ` Thus spake the DoD Jan Steinman
1985-02-26 23:20     ` Stanley Shebs [this message]
1985-02-27 19:22       ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-03-01 19:30         ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-01 20:13         ` neves
1985-03-02  4:33         ` Thomas M. Breuel
1985-03-02 18:35           ` Efficiency of LISP Marty Sasaki
1985-03-03  0:23         ` Language criticism Greg Davidson
1985-03-06 14:13         ` Thus spake the DoD geb
1985-02-28  3:16       ` David Schachter
1985-03-01 19:00         ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-03  3:08         ` Joaquim Martillo
1985-03-03  6:12         ` T J Jardine
1985-03-05 16:55           ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-05 21:07           ` Robert A. Pease
1985-03-12  1:47           ` Ed Colbert
1985-03-13 19:35       ` Monique M Taylor
1985-03-17 19:49         ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-21  1:17           ` faustus
1985-03-12  0:25     ` Efficiency of LISP Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-12  2:11     ` Efficiency of numerical Lisp code (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-13  7:05     ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-03-13 20:00     ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-14 10:12       ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-15  0:27         ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-16  0:59           ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-17 18:58             ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-18  5:02               ` Multi-language systems Marty Sasaki
1985-03-20 17:01                 ` Tom Slack
1985-03-18 21:24               ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Tim Maroney
1985-03-19  6:45                 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? Barry Margolin
1985-03-19 17:35                   ` Speed of Lisp numerical code Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-20 21:04                   ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? T J Jardine
1985-03-22  2:10                     ` Joe Orost
1985-03-19 16:15                 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Bill Henneman
1985-03-19  3:40               ` Norman Diamond
1985-03-18  3:01             ` Common Lisp and Arrays Joaquim Martillo
1985-02-18 23:49 ` Thus spake the DoD M.Fischer
1985-03-14 20:50 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-15 15:42 ` Stanley Shebs
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1985-02-15 14:34 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
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