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From: ntm1169@dsacg1.UUCP (Mott Given)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: When to use LISP
Message-ID: <387@dsacg1.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 17:18:28 GMT
References: <5388@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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in article <5388@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, gautier@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Jorge Gautier) says:
> I am not familiar with the more expensive shells such as M.1, but from
> my students' and my own experiences I can tell you that it may be better to
> use LISP when you need to do meta-level inferencing.  For example,
> explaining the system's reasoning, giving a best guess, influencing
> rule applications, handling user initiative in a questioning process,
> minimizing the number of questions asked by the program:
> in these situations you might want to "step back" and examine the rules

  Thank you for the reply.  M.1 has many metaprositions such as nocache,
  nochec(Expression), presupposition(Expression), whencached(Expression),
  whenfound(Expression = Value cf CF),  noautomaticquestion(Expression), etc.
  Given that M.1 has many constructs for meta-level control of inferencing,
  when would LISP be more  advantageous?

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