"Tolga" wrote: > Let's suppose that I actually want to leave Lisp totally but what about > AI sources? Most of them are based on Lisp. Oh yes, yes, I know, one > may study AI with any language, even with BASIC, but nearly all > important AI books start with a short Lisp intro. They say that "you do > not have to use Lisp, you can use another language with this book". > Ohmigod, does somebody explain me how can this be possible? You're > trying to learn something you don't know, and you will try to read some > important examples written in a language you don't know. This is so > weird!
on the other hand, http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html "Python seems to be easier to read than Lisp for someone with no experience in either language. The Python code I developed looks much more like the (independently developed) pseudo-code in the book than does the Lisp code. This is important, because some students were complaining that they had a hard time seeing how the pseudo-code in the book mapped into the online Lisp code (even though it seemed obvious to Lisp programmers)." </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list