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From: miller@cs.rochester.edu (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.230926.25923@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 23:09:26 GMT
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In article <3946@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
|I don't think Lisp will do all that well if only AI programmers use
|Lisp.  For one thing, it's not clear that AI programmers will continue
|to use Lisp.  There's already a tendency to move to C, especially for
|applications that are fairly well understood.  (If you know how to
|write it before you start, you can write it in C.)  

If you know how to write it, it isn't AI.

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Brad MillerU. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
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