RE: Lisp vs. Perl Round 3: Operator Associativity and Manipulation

[Lee Goddard]

> Simon Cozens wrote:
> >
> > *cough*
> > <listadmin>
> > So, anyone actually want to talk about AI? You've gone past advocacy, that's
> > the previous door on the right.
> > </listadmin>

Here here, etc.

> Look:
>
> 1 - I was in the process of coding something from a book on AI
> 2 - A cornerstone of research using AI is which language you use
> 3 - I came across an example of how Perl was clearly less suited for a
> well-known AI pattern-matcher from a well-known text
> 4 - I was hoping that this inadequacy would be of interest and
> discussion to a bunch of people who feel that Perl and AI make a good
> combination where for the example showed, they clearly are not.

Quite.  It would be really very interesting, though, if you were to consider writing 
Language::Lisp - now *that* would get the round
of applause you seem to covert.

Go on, you know you can do it.

Please...?

lee