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Subject: Re: Symbolic: code example

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:20:28 01/24/04

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On January 24, 2004 at 13:55:47, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 24, 2004 at 09:59:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I am not sure what "statements" you are referring to.  If you find it easy to
>>read someone else's Lisp code, then that's good.  However, on many occasions I
>>found myself having to work on something someone else wrote, I never found Lisp
>>to be the easiest kind of program to work on.
>>
>>If you disagree, that's fine by me...
>
>I have often found an inverse relation between what is good in the long run and
>what is easy here and now.
>
>I don't know Lisp at all, but it could be one of those things you really grow to
>love _if_ you can be open minded enough to get past that initial resentment.
>
>-S.


All new languages are like that.  In fact, bitboards are like that.  :)

But in this case, I don't have any "resentment" since I used it for quite a
while years ago in teaching an AI class.  However, I also used prolog for the
same reason although I don't use it today much, either...  Nor APL, or PL/1
nor Snobol4, even though all are good tools.



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