> Lisp -to me- is one of the most beautiful things in computers; we can > solve our problems in a open dialogue with the computer and instead of > just us explaining something to the computer the computer also teaches > us; by the time it's done it always looks simple and far easier than we > could have imagined when we set out.
this idea of language and dialogue is still just as important now, as it was with the original AI proposal in 1955 . .. "If a machine can do a job, then an automatic calculator can be programmed to simulate the machine. The speeds and memory capacities of present computers may be insufficient to simulate many of the higher functions of the human brain, but the major obstacle is not lack of machine capacity, but our inability to write programs taking full advantage of what we have." n
