Re: two things...

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Alastair Donlon wrote:

> > 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.

I knew I would annoy someone :) That's why I put an ! in.. I could start
having a go at AI as well, but I don't believe it exists so I can't ;))
Heh, that'll probably annoy you even more...

Anyway, the only difference between lisp and something like c is that
where you put things in loops in c, you pop them on the stack in lisp ;)

Cheers,

Alex.
(I am leg-pulling here, btw!)

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