Re: two things...

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Al Hudson wrote:
> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Al> and be in reverse polish notation ;)
> > Lisp is polish notation (operator first).
>
> Sorry, yes, you're right. I have to learn so many dead languages (!) I get
> the confused - Lisp, Haskell, Scheme, they all look the same to me :( Lots
> of brackets, little obvious work going on!
>

Don't start calling LisP a dead language, or Scheme. I've written programs
in LisP that I wouldn't have dreamt of writing in an imperative language.
LisP is still a mainstay of AI research.

A.D.

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