merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

Markus Triska wrote:
> Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I think all-rules-all-the-time Prolog is the poster boy for paradigm
>>slavery.  (I did try for a famous two months to use Prolog as a
>>general-purpose programming language.)
> 
> 
> Don't expect to learn Prolog properly in so little time.

Lawdy, no, but I had all those Art of Prolog and Craft of Prolog and a 
couple other books and I was staring at pages of intense code just 
trying to do basic stuff. I had not learned prolog, but I could see the 
masters writing hairy code to basic stuff so I concluded...run away! run 
away! :)

I think the other thing that got me was cuts, which I translated as "did 
we say unification all the time? sorry..." :)


> To your
> previous question whether the ~180 lines of Lisp code in some online
> book constitute an "industrial strength" Prolog: only if the following
> ~180 lines of Prolog code implement an "industrial strength" Lisp.

<snip lisp-in-Prolog>

Way cool.

ken


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