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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime,comp.ai,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++,comp.robotics
Subject: Re: "Easy" way to put "AI" in realtime embedded systems?
Keywords: realtime, ai, c++, lisp, embedded
Message-ID: <4471@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Apr 91 16:08:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.163917.14641@unhd.unh.edu> <1991Mar27.151129.8754@cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <1991Mar27.151129.8754@cs.utk.edu> sfp@mars.epm.ornl.gov (Phil Spelt) writes:
>In article 777, Steven Chappell inquires about embedded AI, suggesting
>several possible alternatives, and reports choosing "rehost" as their
>solution.  My question:  Why stay with LISP?????

Why not?  Some people like Lisp.  Since we don't insist that you use
the language we like, why give us a hard time for not using the
language you like?

>It also provides "LISP-like" rule construction, but with (IMHO  8=) ) 
>much better mathematical computation ability on the RHS.

It's not clear what this means, since Lisp doesn't have rules.