Re: Lisp versus Prolog

As an undergraduate studying AI I used prolog... it has a natural
syntax for a lot of the course on predicate calculus, logic, NLP,
expert systems etc.

Prolog hides a lot of the work involved with systems that make
deductions, or represent recursive data structures.

However I prefer lisp as a general purpose language and there's a mass
of literature on using it for AI.

Have a look also at Paul Graham's online book "On lisp" which has a
chapter on how to make prolog in lisp and is pretty interesting
reading.

Justin

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