> Can you compare Lisp with Prolog? Perhaps Lisp is more suitable for all
> areas but is Prolog better at least for expert systems?
I learned Prolog before lisp, and loved the simplicity of doing
natural language processing in Prolog, but IMHO Common Lisp is a
better general-purpose language.
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