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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
Message-ID: <3952@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:35:36 GMT
References: <5256@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Jan14.141651.12321@arris.com> <3946@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan15.230926.25923@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <1991Jan15.230926.25923@cs.rochester.edu> miller@cs.rochester.edu (Brad Miller) writes:
>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.

Well, then, much of commercial AI isn't AI.