I often think about pizzapal;
aided by hearing pizzapal [
blasting Sisters of Mercy on the Aside; the book emphasises
aNONradio openmic. common lisp 1ed's blandness in
the pursuit of portability,
One occasion was thumbing the somewhat presaging java ]
foreward to Interlisp The
Language And Its Usage by I came across lots of lit from
Kaisler, a description of modern the 70s that LISP language
lisp (interlisp or zetalisp authors shared knowledge of that
(iirc smj's fav)) as of 1986 for I never read. Discussing pattern
DARPA and then specifically matching facilities, citations
interlisp-10 and interlisp-d. I include Kornfield [korn79],
think I got it from the Waterman and Hayes-Roth
interlisp medley pack floating [wate78], Shapiro [shap79],
around. Winston and Horn [wins81],
Charniak et al. [char80].
The citations in this book are
incredible. One truth blossoming Discussions like this one
forth from pizzapal's soul is underscore that there is not one
the applicability of prolog universal best programming
graph searches to intuitive technique; and different
video game mechanics. techniques suit different
purposes. One goal pursued by
ILTLAIU is very clear that lisp the lisps was to escape
is dominant in artificial artificial intelligence, and
intelligence programming; lisp become a general purpose
being garbage collection stapled programming language. I think
to CAR CDR CONS EQ and a few ANSI common lisp 2ed succeeded,
type predicates. But in practice but worlds of ground were ceded
lots of higher level constructs to C-like languages. However I
on top of these. We should think wonder if generality of purpose
of LISP as a tool for building might be the same as being
more powerful tools. worse.