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Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 09:13:15 EST
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>I thus stand by my original claim that the importance of LISP to AI is
>greatly exaggerated.  Not only can one now chose one of the LISP
>offspring such as PROLOG or FORTH, but also if one is writing an actual
>production system one should examine one of the more efficient
>algorithmic languages to see if it is adequate for one's application.

Has FORTH changed since I last looked at it?  Then, it didn't
support dynamic variables (like lists of arbitrary length).
I suppose you could write some routines to do that, but then
wouldn't it be like lisp, and need something like gc?  Without
dynamic variables, how could you do ai?