List Processing Capabilities

[Jim Richardson]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:10:18 +0200, 
 Alex Martelli, in the persona of <aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>"Jim Sabatke" <jsabatke at execpc.com> wrote in message
>news:39bcfac4$0$99040$726baab at news.execpc.com...
>> Are the list processing capabilities in Python sufficiently Lisp-like to
>> perform AI types of processing?
>
>Python's lists are very different from Lisp's, but the list-processing
>capabilities are at least equivalent, so that shouldn't be a problem.
>
>However, to get good performance, you might need a language for which
>good optimizing compilers exist, and Python currently doesn't have
>them.  You might want to look into Scheme (with the stalin compiler),
>Common Lisp, Haskell, or ML (Moscow ML, OCaml, or other dialects yet).
>
>I personally suggest Haskell (clean syntax, with Python-like aspects,
>e.g. in the use of whitespace; it has some issues, but you should not
>meet them, if what you're doing with it is just list-processing).
>
>
>Alex
>
>

<Raising hand to expose his ignorance>
What's list processing and how does it help with AI programming?


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